RH9: Multiple Topics with the Same Map ID

[rphox2003]

I'm trying to use the same Map ID with more than one topic, which seems logical to me as a process that contains multiple screens could open an overview of the process, but I get an error that "The map number is already in this project".

I've tried manually editing the BSSCDefault.h file, but when I go back to RH the second topic is still showing the unique Map ID that I deleting.

How can I bypass this? Thanks.

One more thing: I just noticed that in the Edit Map IDs dialog box the Map ID and Topic Name columns use the same topic name (which also appears in the H file). This topic name also appears in the Page Title field of the TOC Properties dialog box, but the Link to field can have a different HTML filename. Is this ok?

[Willam_van_Weelden]

Hi,

Make an overview topic and assign the map id to the overview topic instead of trying to add it to multiple topics.

Greet,

Willam

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Your logic is a bit flakey here - if you assign MapID 10 to 3 topics, which one is your application supposed to launch when it gets told "open MapID 10"? No wonder it gets confused - you always want to have a 1:1 link between MapID and topics.

[rphox2003]

My explanation was off. My bad.

At our company the developers assign unique IDs to each new screen they create. I must use this unique ID as a MAP ID. And the only way I can define multiple Map IDs (screens) to the same topic is to manually edit the H file.

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

That makes more sense - you can always have multiple places in the app point to the same topic (many:1, not 1:many)

[rphox2003]

The problem is that I have to edit the H file manually. RH9 only shows the first entry for any given topic.