Merged Help - emailing links to a child topic

[Colette_M_]

Using RoboHelp 8.02.

We are testing merged help for a parent with 5 child projects.  We have a regular need to email a link to a topic in a child project and keep the full, merged TOC visible without users having to click a Show hyperlink.  Is there a way to do this?

Thanks,

Colette

[Peter Grainge]

You can open a topic in a child project so that the full TOC opens in two ways.

1] Use a link in the form pathtostartpage/startpage.htm#pathtochildtopic/childtopic.htm. See Calling WebHelp on my site.

2] In RoboHelp 8 there is an option in the wizard so that when a topic in a child is opened, the full TOC displays.

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Message was edited by: Peter Grainge to correct original answer.