Field or javascript variable to get robohelp project name at run time

[Guest]

Hi

We have a large number of projects and want a script that, when run from a topic (the user clicks some link), picks up the project name, in the same way for example that it can pick up the topic title by using the Javascript 'document.title' .

Thanks,

Peter B

[Captiv8r]

Hi Peter

I'm thinking the only way you can accomplish this is by populating the HTML of each topic with a JavaScript variable containing the Project Name. Then you would be able to read that variable and use it later.

Unfortunately, I don't believe there is anything in RoboHelp that will really assist much with this. So likely it will mean visiting each topic to insert the variable. I suppose you might be able to accomplish it fairly easily using a Find and Replace tool.

Cheers... Rick

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[Willam_van_Weelden · Accepted solution]

Hi,

To quickly get the project title, use top.document.title. This will only work if the entire skin is showing. When the skin is not showing, use show(); to open the skin.

Alternatively, the following (crude) function tries to retrieve the project title for you. It either returns the title or it returns false.

function GetProjectTitle() {
if(!isTopicOnly())
    var Title = top.document.title;
else
{
     if(gsStartPage.substr(0,4) == "file")
     {
         var Title = false;
     }
     else
     {
        try {
            var sRelStartFile = _getRelativeFileName(document.location.href, gsStartPage);
           
            try {
                var oRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
            }
            catch(e) {
                var oRequest=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
            }
           
            oRequest.open("GET",sRelStartFile,false);
            oRequest.send(null)
           
            var Content=oRequest.responseText;

            //Quickly split the text into arrays to get the title. No bothering with DOM.

            var beginTitle = /<title>/g;
            var endTitle = /<\/title>/g;
           
            var Title = Content.split(beginTitle);
            var Title = Title[1].split(endTitle);
            var Title = Title[0];
        }
        catch(e)
        {
            var Title = false;
        }
     }
}
return Title;
}

The function tries to get the content of the startpage from the server. This only works when your help is placed on a server. This function allways returns false when you call the help from a local disk.

Greet,

Willam

[Guest]

Neat and easy!

top.document.title gives me the project name and document.title gives the topic title.

Thanks,

Peter