Tag Cloud in RoboHelp 8 WebHelp

[Greig_at_Lands]

I was wondering about a tag cloud on the front page of my WebHelp output, perhaps based on the keywords or title, heading 1 and keywords. Or, even better, on search terms.

I have no idea how to go about this but was wondering if anyone else had given it any thought or to throw it out there as a challenge. Could it be generated from Index keywords?

Any takers, theories, ideas or comments?

Greig

[Peter Grainge]

I haven't seen any comment about them on any forum and from what I see by Googling, their popularity seems to be dwindling.

Have you looked at http://tagcrowd.com/ where you can generate the code for free?

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[Captiv8r]

Peter, thanks for sharing that bit on TagCrowd. I've never seen it before. I can't seem to make it work at the moment, but all it appears to do is to generate a "frequency list" of words on a web page.

@ Grieg - I always thought these "Tag Clouds" required a related ability to allow users to tag information. This is something RoboHelp doesn't currently do. For anyone watching this thread I would ask that if you really feel this ability would be a worthwhile thing to see in RoboHelp at some point, consider submitting a Wish Form to ask for it.

Cheers and happy Friday all! Rick

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[Greig_at_Lands]

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created at TagCrowd.com

Thank you Peter and Rick for the replies.

At the top is a tag cloud created via Tag Crowd, as suggested by Peter, using Rick's reply. To create the cloud I cut and pasted Rick's reply into Tag Crowd's paste text option. The next step would be to add links to the words so the user is taken to a page that lists the results, like a search results page. All of this is sounding like a lot of work for little reward and for something that is gimmicky. Peter's suggestion, though, is a valide one for making a tag cloud.

I suppose what I was really wanting was to see a way of using something like the search weightings to determine the size of the text, picking out any keywords that had been added to topics and linking to a search results page. Or of using the index to do a similar thing (Is it possible to put the contents of an index keyword list on to a topic page to create an index page?).

As for Rick's suggestion that Tag Clouds are driven by users tagging of pages I would generally agree but seeing as though we don't have that ability in RoboHelp I thought I would skip that bit, although I feel it would be a nice feature for users, along with an ability for them to save a favourites list perhaps. Time to follow up on Rick's suggestion of using the wishlist.

Thanks,

Greig

[Peter Grainge]

Is the way it looks in the forum the way it looks in RH?

If not, perhaps a screenshot would help.

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[Greig_at_Lands]

Good suggestion Peter. There you go.

[Captiv8r]

Ick! I see no value whatsoever in that jumbled mess!

I'll take my help files neat, with a splash of control. Thank you very much.

Shudder... Rick

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