Adobe Community: Message List - Air Help topic navigation links broken

Re: Air Help topic navigation links broken

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 10:05:39 GMT

I also encountered the broken breadcrumbs links when generating "Air Help and Browser Based Help" and tried the solution proposed here.

Although this resolves the problem that has been described, I'm finding that in my AirHelp application it introduces another one when online.

When using browser based Air Help for the online content, the AirHelp search function worked ok.

After substituting the webhelp files I find that the seach function does not return any results when viewing online content.

Has anybody else encountered this and is there a simple solution?

Alternatively, I was wondering if there is any way in which the breadcrumbs can be displayed, but not be active - if that were possible I'd be able to continue working with the original Air Help and Browser Based Help files.

Thanks

Re: Air Help topic navigation links broken

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:50:15 GMT

Yes, if webhelp is generated instead of browser-based AIR help, the breadcrumbs work properly.

Thank you very much for finding a solution, Peter!

Re: Air Help topic navigation links broken

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:24:53 GMT

Just to update the thread, I believe I have found the solution to this and will post the answer once Meliset has confirmed it is working for her.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

Re: Air Help topic navigation links broken

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:31:14 GMT

It seems the answer is not to generate browser based AIR help for the online element.

I generated webhelp instead making sure the Show Navigational Links option was deselected. With that done the breadcrumbs all worked fine in both the online and offline help. The user opens the help and if a connection is available the help defaults to the online content in the view, which is local. Without a connection or when the user elects to go offline, they stay in the view but with the local content.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

Re: Air Help topic navigation links broken

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:36:02 GMT

Peter, no. I don’t see a new thread.

Re: Air Help topic navigation links broken

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:32:36 GMT

Meliset

Just wondering if you got the new email thread I started?

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@petergrainge

Re: Air Help topic navigation links broken

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:30:10 GMT

Earlier on you generated from the SalesBuilder project. Did you just try BB AIR help or did you also try Desktop? If you did not create Desktop from that, please do so now and me the AIR file created.

See the contact page on my site.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

Re: Air Help topic navigation links broken

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:20:00 GMT

I’ve just verified that the directory structure is exactly the same in both the BrowserBasedHelp folder and on the web server.

Re: Air Help topic navigation links broken

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:20:30 GMT

I upload the files myself to the server using FileZilla. I believe the folder structure remains intact but I will double-check that to make sure and post back, thank.

Re: Air Help topic navigation links broken

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:19:18 GMT

The problem occurs in Browser help. In desktop help, the breadcrumbs do not work as links at all, although they are visible.

Re: Air Help topic navigation links broken

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:27:02 GMT

Wondering just how the browser based AIR help was put onto the server. Could the developers have put the files up without respecting the folder structure?

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

Re: Air Help topic navigation links broken

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:16:50 GMT

I thought the problem occurred with both desktop and browser help. Are you saying it is only with the browser help?

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@petergrainge

Re: Air Help topic navigation links broken

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:47:25 GMT

I did review the AIR pages on your site several times before posting. Perhaps it's a problem with our web server, since you say the sample projects are known to work. I was sure it was a bug.

Our RH projects are stored in a Subversion repository, but I check them out and work on them locally, on my local machine. Some of my tests were done only locally and not saved in Subversion.

Re: Air Help topic navigation links broken

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:23:58 GMT

Those projects are tested and known to work including the breadcrumbs and with the topics at many levels. Are your projects local when you are working on them?

If they are, then look at the AIR pages on my site to see if you can pick up something.

Post back. I can't think offhand what would cause this but will give it some time tomorrow.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

Re: Air Help topic navigation links broken

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:17:12 GMT

Thank you for the speedy reply.

I did test this with the sample "salesbuilder" project and got the same results. I tried it with different skins and templates (i.e., multi-tab accordian) and got the same results. The only remedy has been to move the topics from their subfolders in the Project Manager to the top-level folder.

Re: Air Help topic navigation links broken

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:07:33 GMT

I am not sure what the problem is at this stage but I don't think it is a bug as no one else has hit the problem.

Please open one of the sample projects and generate some AIR help from that to establish the links work there. That rules out a bug and tells us it is something in your project. What it is will still need to be determined but we will know we are looking in the right place.

Probably the first thing I would do is apply another skin and not make any changes to the default.

Post back how you get on. I'm going offline soon but will pick up your reply tomorrow if no one else has waded in.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

Air Help topic navigation links broken

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:51:16 GMT

I've logged this as a bug, but was wondering if anyone else has run into this problem.

When generating the "Air Help and Browser Based Help" output format (and uploading the browser files to the web server and installing the AirHelp application), the navigation links that appear above the help window and below the search bar/navigation buttons are broken. The example below shows the uni-pane template, but the problem occurs with all templates.

Upon clicking the first or second topic link (in the red circled area), this displays "The page cannot be found" and the navigation links themselves disappear.

I noticed that the problem only exists when the topics in the Project Manager are organized into subfolders. If all the topics in the Project Manager reside in the top-level folder, the links navigate properly. Also, the links are only clickable when in online mode, not in local mode. I've been unable to either disable the navigation links entirely, or make them un-clickable in online mode.

I'm running RH9, Windows 7 (64-bit).

Any help would be appreciated.