RoboHelp 8 HTML Forms Drop Down Menu

[Gunjan_Khanna]

Hi,

I have inserted a drop-down menu in RH8 (Insert > HTML > Form > Drop-Down Menu) and added 10 values to it. On the same page, I have created a table with 10 rows. Now I want to link the drop-down options to specific rows.

For example, when I select IN from the drop-down menu, it should take me to the India row in the table.

Please help!

Thanks,

Gunjan

[RoboColum_n_]

Hi Gunjan and welcome to the RH community.

Unfortunately this is not possible using the forms fucntionality. The drop down list is just that, a list of values that can be selected from a drop down list. It was never designed to navigate the user to another form element. You maybe able to generate a script to do this but I'm afraid this is not something I can help you with.

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[Peter Grainge]

Sounds like you need to bookmark the target and then point the menu option to the bookmark.

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[Gunjan_Khanna]

I tried to bookmark the row..but drop-down menu does not allow me to hyperlink to the bookmark. Is there any way?

Thanks,

Gunjan

[RoboColum_n_]

Have you saved the topic containing the form? If not, the bookmarks won't display to link to.

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[Willam_van_Weelden]

Hi,

You must use a custom javascript to get this done. Rick's suggestion should work.

Greet,

Willam

[Captiv8r]

Hi Gunjan

As a first step, you will need to insert a bookmark at the assorted spots you wish to link to. Have you done this?

Once you have the bookmarks, you then will need to configure the form drop-down with some JavaScript to handle linking to the bookmarks.

I did this once with many pages and here is what the script looked like for me. Your script will likely need to be amended to suit your needs:

<form>
<p align="center" class="whs1">Advisories <select name=month size=1 onChange=window.location=form.month.value>
<option value=102003.htm>October, 2003</option>
<option value=112003.htm>November, 2003</option>
<option value=122003.htm>December, 2003</option>
<option value=012004.htm selected=TRUE>January, 2004</option>
<option value=022004.htm>February, 2004</option>
</select></p>
</form>

Assuming you were using bookmarks, I might think the following would work:

<form>
<p align="center" class="whs1">Advisories <select name=month  size=1 onChange=window.location=form.month.value>
<option value=#Australia>Australia</option>
<option value=#England>England</option>
<option value=#India selected=TRUE>India</option>
<option value=#USA>United States</option>
</select></p>
</form>

Cheers... Rick

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[Captiv8r]

Sorry gang. Didn't mean to tread on anyone's toes. Y'all popped in as I was composing my response... Rick