Show/Hide All expanding links when opening topics outside tri-pane view

[tspaul]

Does anyone know of a way to create a button or link that shows or hides all expanding and drop-down links in a WebHelp topic when the topic is opened *outside* of the traditional tri-pane view? I know that Peter Grainge has a solution to this on his site, but it assumes the tri-pane view is being used, which is probably true for almost all RoboHelp users. We, however, open help topics outside of that view, so I am looking for a solution that doesn't require a button in the skin.

I did look at the toggle.js Javascript file provided on Peter Grainge's site, but I was unsure how to change the lines that assume the presence of the bsscright frame.

Thanks,

Tammy

[tspaul]

My apologies - I was focused on the problem and forgot to mention that I am using RoboHelp HTML 8 and am talking here specifically about the WebHelp output.

[Willam_van_Weelden]

Hi,

You can use the show/hide all script form my twisty method: http://www.grainge.org/pages/authoring/twisty/twisty.htm or http://www.wvanweelden.eu/robohelp/scripts/twisties_and_show_hide_all. You can use only the show/hide all buttons in your topics. This is compatible with the default RoboHelp 8 twisties.

For the toggle.js, remove :

var setFocus = parent.frames[1].bsscright;

Then, remove "setFocus." from the following lines:

var arrayofDivs = setFocus.document.getElementsByTagName('DIV');
var arrayofSpans = setFocus.document.getElementsByTagName('SPAN');
var arrayofLinks = setFocus.document.getElementsByTagName('A');


Greet,

Willam

[tspaul]

Thank you, William!

[tspaul]

There are other references to bsscright and to setFocus in the file. Should I remove all of those as well?

I'm also not quite sure how to code the link and/or button. The methods I'm seeing assume I am not using the standard twisty method embedded in RoboHelp, but I am using that.

Tammy

[tspaul]

I see now that my link works properly when I remove the additional references to the bsscright frame and the other "setFocus" references. Thanks for your help!

[Willam_van_Weelden]

Hi,

Glad it worked. Sorry for not giving a reaction sooner, you know timezones and all that.

Greet,

Willam

[tspaul]

I do unfortunately still have one problem. Now that I've removed all the "setFocus" variable references, I have to click twice on the link the first time to make it work. After that, a single click is sufficient to expand or collapse.

[Willam_van_Weelden]

Hi,

Did you also remove parent.frames[1].bsscright.focus(); from the function?

Is the first line of the script still var show = "false";?

Greet,

Willam

[tspaul]

The answer to both questions is yes - I removed the bsscright line you mentioned, and show is still set to false.

Tammy

[Willam_van_Weelden · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The problem is that there is a function 'show' in whtopic.js that conflicts with the variable in the script. Rename the variable 'show' and all occurances to something like 'isshown' to fix the script.

Greet,

Willam

[tspaul]

Thank you, William! This works perfectly. I had traced through the code trying to find the problem but couldn't see anything wrong. I didn't think about a conflict with names used in another file. Thanks for all the work you have done on this in the past and today!

Tammy