Change Horizontal Template to Vertical RH 7

[Guest]

Hello,

I'm wanting to just move the TOC in a horizontal template to the top to make it vertical. What files do i need to edit? I couldn't find a similar topic or relevant information. The skin I'm using is Titanium in RH 7.

Forgive me if this is a repeat or blatantly obvious.

Regards,

Eric

[Willam_van_Weelden]

Hi,

I'm not sure what you want to do. Do you want to move the TOC so it's positioned above the topic? Please be a more specific.

Greet,

Willam

[Guest]

Yes, I want to move the TOC above the topic.

Regards,

Eric

[Willam_van_Weelden · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Open whskin_frmset01.htm in your output directory. Use find and replace to replace all instances of 'cols' with 'rows', there are nine occurences.

Then, go to line 109 and replace 'nPos=oWnd.document.body.offsetWidth;' with 'nPos=oWnd.document.body.offsetHeight;'

Last, go to line 111 and replace 'nPos=oWnd.document.body.offsetHeight;' with 'nPos=oWnd.document.body.offsetWidth;'

Save your file and paste it in every ouput you want a vertical TOC.

You can also set the size of the TOC in whskin_frmset01.htm. there are several instances of 220,* (or another value than 220) in the file. Replace all instances of 220 with height you want the TOC to have.

Greet,

Willam

[Guest]

This worked! Thanks!

Regards,

Eric

[Guest]

The change was well received by the team. Is there an easy way to have the contents collapsed when the help first starts?

Thanks again,

Eric

[RoboWizard]

Hi Eric

One way to do that is to configure a topic that isn't actually part of the TOC to be the default topic. As there will be no corresponding TOC node to expand and synchronize with, the TOC should not be expanded.

Note that if you are using Section 508, I believe that TOC is fully expanded. No way around that I am aware of.

Cheers... Rick

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[Guest]

That is a good idea, but the topics are all context sensitive so I want them to be associated with the TOC.

Thanks,

Eric

[RoboWizard]

Hi again

It would seem to be an easy task to create a single topic to use for this purpose. Perhaps it would simply contain an image of the company logo or whatever.

Cheers... Rick

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