Peter, I'm also testing Zoom for my 2.3K-topic merged WebHelp
project; David Wren was kind enough to give me a 5-day Pro key to
verify that the JavaScript output could handle that amount of
pages, which it does easily.
In my mind the best feature, in addition to ranking and
descriptions, etc., is the Categories! To present a manageable TOC,
I set up a dozen major categories to group my 40 projects. All I
had to do was create the Zoom categories and point them to the
related project folders. Too easy!
As to the search.html page, the only problem I'm having is
for those categories, which are set up as an inline list: in the
initial view, the third line of categories doesn't align properly
on the left; after achieving results, all three lines are aligned
properly. Once we actually purchase a couple of licenses, I figured
to post a query in his forum to see how to correct this.
As to where to place the Zoom files, I just put them all in
the root; I figured, why bother? It's only a few files, and I don't
need any directory confusion. The other thing that concerns me is
that his ZOOMSTOP/ZOOMSTART feature for toggling the indexing for
particular sections of a topic, actually gets ignored by RH when
generating the Webhelp. (I have some topics that use Walter Zorn's
tooltip JavaScript utility, and I'd like to hide that from being
indexed.). Therefore, I'd probably have to do some creative,
post-generation FAR magic on the output before running Zoom against
it.
Oh, BTW Kutra, our help is distributed on a CD with the
application, and runs on the same middle-tier server that hosts our
major application components.
Good luck,
Leon