How do I set a book to auto expand in the TOC for WebHelp in RH8?

[asjeffer]

How do I set a book to auto expand in the TOC for WebHelp in RH8?

Thanks in advance

[Captiv8r]

Hi there

Can you expound on your understanding of "Auto expand" and the behavior you are wanting?

If you are wanting a specific book opened when the help loads up, configure a topic inside the book as the Default Topic.

Cheers... Rick

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[asjeffer]

I would like to display books under the root level automatically. I did find a workaround by just eliminating the root level.

April Jefferson

Technical Writer

Lowry Computer Products, Inc.

9420 Maltby Road

Brighton, MI  48116

www.lowrycomputer.com

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[BernieMeyer]

I am also interested in this topic, only I want to enable the user

to expand or collapse all topics in the WebHelp TOC with one click. My workflow is FrameMaker -> Flare -> WebHelp.

Thanks for any pointers anyone can offer.

- Bernie Meyer

  Concept Publications

[Captiv8r]

Hi Bernie

Are you posting this in the right forum? Framemaker > FLARE?

Assuming you misspoke and intended to type RoboHelp where you typed Flare, this simply has never been a feature of RoboHelp. Collapsing all open books might be possible by simply reloading the help. Expanding them all will not be possible.

Cheers... Rick

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[BernieMeyer]

Thanks, Rick. No, you got me; I got to the article via googling, then logged into post, but didn't notice it was a Robohelp branch of the forum till just after I posted.

Sorry bout that; and thanks for taking the time to reply!

- Bernie

[JGaf]

Has anyone found a solution to add a button or link so users can expand all/collapse all books in the TOC?

[asjeffer]

Sorry, I still have not figured this out. Hopefully if it is not possible in RH8 it is in the next version.

[Peter Grainge]

Not a RoboHelp 8 option so submit a feature request but do ask for it as an option.

The more people who request a feature, the more likely it is to be actioned. Please follow this link.

http://www.Adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform&product=38

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@petergrainge

[Captiv8r]

Hi folks

Expanding all would prove tricksy to accomplish. But collapsing all should be pretty simple to achieve. What you need in order to collapse all is a link that simply reloads WebHelp! When it reloads all the books should be collapsed.

Cheers... Rick

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