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I also have multiple books in which I want to have Next/Back buttons. The Help PDF offered by Adobe does not adequately describe how to do this. Does anyone have a good example/description of how I do this?
Walt Mahan
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Those are images that are missing. You need to locate and copy the appropriate images. You should be able to determine what their file names are by examining the source of the files. Once you sort that, just copy the images in too.
Or, if you will be repeatedly dealing with this, copy the images to the Baggage Files list so they are automagickally populated.
Cheers... Rick
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Are you asking for a home grown setup or are you wanting to implement Browse Sequences?
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I will use Browse Sequences if I understand how. The examples in the RoboHelp pdf do not seem to be relevant. I simply want to link each major topic with Next/Back links in each separate book (I have 2 books now but will have 5-6 in the future).
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Hi again
You might wish to review the Before you post topic. I say that not to criticize or belittle, but only to illustrate that it would appear I have to ask more questions and all the back and forth takes time and further delays the answer.
What is your output? What are you using? (RoboHelp exists as two separate products) How do you want that output to appear? Do you want it as links inside the topic content or can it appear otherwise. What is possible to accomplish depends a bit on the answers to those questions.
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I don't know how to access a thread (467760) that you referenced. I am generating WebHelp. I want the navigation buttons within my topics. Whether the links are Next and Back, or < and > is not that important. I just want the user to be able to quickly browse between adjacent topics.
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To access the link I listed, you just click it in your web browser.
There are a few different ways you can do this. You can insert the text as you wish to see it, then manually create the links. Ick! That's not very much fun.
If you are using RoboHelp 8 you could create a Master Page and insert a Breadcrumb Trails placeholder, then apply the Master Page across the topics.
For any version of RoboHelp you could achieve this by creating a Browse Sequence (Tools > Browse Sequence Editor) and generate WebHelp twice. The first pass to folder A and the second pass to folder B. During the first pass, you use the "Traditional - No skin" output. This would produce topics with code in them that contains the Previous and Next links. Then the second pass would be generated with a skin. You would then copy the topics from folder A and overwrite the topics in folder B to obtain the best of both worlds.
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Thanks, I did not know about traditional skin. How do I control where the output (WebHelp) is generated to? Also, it looks like 508 compliant will not generate navigation. Is this true?
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Right clicking in the Single Source Layout for Properties allows you to
set the location. I forget what the 508 field does for you.
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I took your suggestion using Folder A & Folder B and overwrote as you suggested. When I opened the Help file, the icons were missing for << and >> so the following was on my screens:
Can these be resolved or did I do something wrong? Walt
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Hi there
Those are images that are missing. You need to locate and copy the appropriate images. You should be able to determine what their file names are by examining the source of the files. Once you sort that, just copy the images in too.
Or, if you will be repeatedly dealing with this, copy the images to the Baggage Files list so they are automagickally populated.
Cheers... Rick
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Thanks for your help. That worked.