Sorting topics in Keywords

[WillamW]

I am experiencing the following problem with Robohelp 7:

I migrated the index from my Robohelp 5 environment into Robohelp 7 and I did a thorough restructuring of my index. In this index I created several new keywords and subkeywords. I assigned several topics to these keywords, but Robohelp does not sort the topics in alphabetical order, it orders them in the order in which topics have been linkedd to a keyword. The strange thing is that in the topic screen all the topics are neatly sorted in alphabetical order. When I generate the primary layout, the topics are inserted in the webhelp in the wrong order.

I use the HHK file (in which the keywords are stored in a wrong order), with binary index checked. I tried disabling the primary index, creating a new one by copying all the keys, but the problem persists. I also tried to set the index to topics, but this does not help either.

Can you explain to me how I can set RoboHelp to sort the hhk file in the correct order, or how can I easily create the alphabetical of my index keys? (instead of manually editing the hhk file) Thanks in advance for your reply.

[prhmusic]

Does anyone have any suggestions for this question? I would like to solve the same problem!

[Captiv8r]

Hi Paul

Have you tried just right-clicking in the index and choosing sort?

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Note that this may require you to temporarily configure Microsoft HTML Help as the primary layout and editing the Project Settings in order to allow the sort function to appear.

Remember, you press Ctrl+Shift+? to open Project Settings. You then would turn off (or ensure it's turned off) the Binary Index feature.

Once you have done this, you would then revert any settings that you changed to allow things to work.

Cheers... Rick

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[prhmusic]

I can't get the Sort button to enable.

This is what is in RoboHelp:

This is what is in my WebHelp output:

I want the topics on the gray popup to be in alpha order.

[Captiv8r]

Hmmm

So you ensured Microsoft HTML Help was set as the primary layout and you turned off Binary index and Sort STILL isn't available?

I'm stumped... Rick

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[prhmusic]

Yep, went back and tried it again. This time, though, I noticed that when I returned to Project Settings, the Binary index check box was selected, even though I had just cleared it moments ago.  Wonder why it's not sticking as "cleared" in the Project Settings window.