Robohelp changes hyper-links with # sign

[Yaroslaf4ik]

Hi community,

Robohelp 9.0.2

I have an issue with Word hyperlinks. I want to generate a project with 20 separate .doc files as project topics.

As I want to crossreference these topics, the only good way I found is to add a final topic address in the .doc file as a hyperlink, e.g.:

http://mycompany.com/documentation/index.htm#topic.htm

But after generation I find that all links refer to the page that contain those links (e.g. http://mycompany.com/index.htm)

How to  avoid this transformation?

Or maybe there is a more correct way to do cross-reference? (w/o manually changing generated html files).

I will appreciate any help as I want to migrate documentation to Robohelp and search the best approach.

Best regards!

[Peter Grainge]

You want links between Word documents that survive when you link to them all in a Rh project, if I have understood you correctly.

I think this was explored once before on these forums and the conclusion was that it cannot be done.

Is there an overriding reason for having linked documents rather than having the content in RoboHelp?

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@petergrainge

[Yaroslaf4ik]

Hi Peter! Thank you for helping me again! I remember you helped me a lot with pictures quality half a year ago.

I need to link word files, because this is our standart and actually it works pretty well.

Actually I have URLs pointing to a web site. http://domain.com/documentation/index.htm#section/subject.htm

So I want to have cross reference with the help of standart links. But Robohelp seems doesn't understand "#".

Perhaps you know how else I can implement this?

[Peter Grainge]

The use of the hash tag is a way of opening a Rh output showing a topic other than the default topic. See http://www.grainge.org/pages/authoring/calling_webhelp/using_urls.htm on my site.

I think the problem is that they are not surviving the link process and, as above, I think others have found the same issue without any posted resolution.

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@petergrainge

[Yaroslaf4ik]

Thank you Peter for your help and the link.

Word 2003 saves links like

../index.htm#section_name

as

../index.htm" \l "section_name"

So, it actually uses two links for this kind of URLs. Anyone can check this by pressing Alt+F9 in Word.

I experimented with changing that presentation (just edited Word's link code), but nothing helps.

So, I will use another way to point to a specific section. It will create just a few drawbacks.

Closing? Take care!