Webhelp navigation components

[Andy_Tindale]

I have successfully created a Webhelp project and uploaded the output onto our website. Everything works OK except that when referencing a page that is not the starting page, the navigation components (contents index search etc) are not displayed and instead a simple 'Show' link is shown at the top of the page. After clicking on the Show link everything is displayed as expected but I would prefer it if the navigation components were automatically displayed. To see the problem click on:

http://www.designbuilder.co.uk/programhelp/Ground_Modelling.htm

I get the same behaviour whether referencing html pages directly (as above) or when using the RH_ShowHelp VB code supplied with RoboHelp to access context sensitive help from a Windows VB application.

I hope someone can explain how to get round this.

Andy Tindale
DesignBuilder Software

[Peter Grainge]

Welcome to the forum

Take a look at the topic on my site about Calling WebHelp using URLs.

You need a string which is path/startpage.htm#path/target_topic.htm

[Andy_Tindale]

OK I have spotted that I can get the navigation components by referencing the topic using:

http://www.designbuilder.co.uk/programhelp/index.htm#Ground_Modelling.htm

This still leaves the context sensitive help accessed from the VB program. I am using code:

RoboHelp_CSH.RH_ShowHelp hwndParent, " http://www.designbuilder.co.uk/programhelp/index.htm", HH_HELP_CONTEXT, ContextId

Any ideas why this does not show the navigation components until the 'Show' Link at the top of the page is clicked.

Thanks,

Andy

[Peter Grainge]

I can't help you on that part but have you looked at the two links at the begining or the topic on Calling WebHelp using Map IDs.