broken links with index keywords

[luviola10]

Using RH 8, I have 20 broken links associated with index keywords. can someone advise how to easily get rid of these broken links?

Many thanks

[RoboColum_n_]

I assume you are talking about links to index keywords rather than unused index keywords. If so, you have references to those index keywords somewhere inside your project. Your options are to repair the links or remove the references. If you right click on each broken link there are options to Edit, Restore and Show References which will help you find out what is going on.

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The RoboColum(n)

@robocolumn

Colum McAndrew

[luviola10]

Hello Colum, what does the unused index keywords report signify? are these keywords that were once created for the index but are unused now because the references don't exist anymore?

Also, when I open the Topic References for a broken link, delete is greyed out. I would like to use it but I can't find a way to make delete active.

[RoboColum_n_]

That's exactly it. When a topic is deleted, its keywords are left behind in case you need to add them to other topics. If you just have these, you can delete them from the Index pod.

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The RoboColum(n)

@robocolumn

Colum McAndrew

[luviola10]

this is more complicated. I have broken links that are also missing topics. These missing topics are not needed and weren't deliberately created by me. Look at this pic of one of them:

this seems to be several topic names put together under one htm topic. I have the separate topics, namely, Introduction, and Assumptions for a duty Person in the correct place in the project. Notice the ABB Docs and s6010001... are not topics but file folders in the project. How can I delete the htm in this picture? I have another 18 others like it that need deleting as well.

[Amebr]

That looks like a single file to me. It's just also showing the path to the file as well. (or where it used to live, perhaps?)

Perhaps if you could expand out the s6010001 folder and its sub-folder and post  screenshots of what is in there?

[luviola10]

Here is another broken link similar to the one above showing the folder structure that doesn't match the link. you can see there is no ABB Docs.

[RoboColum_n_]

One thing I don't think we've ever established is whether these bookmarks are actually present in one of the linked word files you have in your project. Also I notice that in your previous screenshot the ABB Docs folder did exist. If it doesn't now, what has changed? Are we even talking about the same issue?

[luviola10]

1. the bookmarks in question here were not in any of the linked Word files.

2. In the previous shot, yes the ABB docs folder existed but since removing other broken links, I believe I removed this folder because there was nothing in it.

In sum, I am down to 3 broken links from the 20 I started with at the beginning of this thread.

I hope this helps.

[RoboColum_n_]

OK so do you need the link to the "Logging onto the FIG" topic? If so, you'll need to find where this topic exists and change the path to point to it. If you don't need this link you can just remove it from the topic where the link exists.

[luviola10]

I resolved the "Logging into the FIG" topic.

I have 3 links left to resolve and I don't need any of them. When you say "you can just remove it from the topic where the link exists" what is the procedure for doing this? can you explain better?

[RoboColum_n_]

What you'll need to do is find out where the reference is to the broken link. Are these in your TOC or inside a topic? If they in the TOC it should just be a case of deleting the topic/page from there. If the reference is in a topic, you'll have to open that topic, find the reference and remove it. The Link View should tell you where the references are.

[luviola10]

the problem is I have a couple broken links like the following:

my problem here is I can't identify a valid topic from the file name. the file name is a mass of several topics together that I don't believe were ever linked, that is, one topic did not have an internal link to another. It seems very random...