Show link instead of TOC in context-sensitive help

[NancyLieberman]

I am struggling to get my context-sensitive Help topics to always display the TOC - rather than have users have to click "Show".
I know there is a way to do this... anyone know? I'm using X5.
Thanks!

[Peter Grainge]

See the topic about calling webhelp using urls on my site.

[NancyLieberman]

Unfortunately this did NOT help me as it only says "it will display" which is not happening for me. I see the TOC w/ my default topic but not the rest of the system. eek!

[Peter Grainge]

If your link is in the format startpage.htm#path/targettopic.htm, the help opens with the TOC and the csh topic.

Is that not happening. Sorry, it's not clear from your reply.

[NancyLieberman]

is startpage.htm always the same or dependent on my system? I'm having trouble identifying the start page for my developer...

[Peter Grainge]

It is whatever you have called in the first field of the first page in the generation wizard.

[MergeThis]

At the very top:

Select Output Folder and Start Page

Not to be confused with the Default Topic a little further down (that's the opening page that displays when the help is launched without a CSH call). Your startpage can be called whatever (and wherever) you want, such as:

C:\Docs/RoboHelp\ProjectA\MyStartPage.htm


Good luck,
Leon