(RoboHelp X5/HTML Help output): I am doing major re-work on
eight projects. In the past I have kept an Excel file for each
project as a reference for Context Mappings. I have columns for
Menu, Menu Item, Window (Title Bar/"Caption") Name (so I know how
to get to the window in question when running the program), and
then Help Context ID mapping number and the Topic Name columns. So
I would fill in all the info and then give it the VB programmer to
assign the Help Context property in each VB form. (Gee, I hope that
makes sense...)
So this time I want to start fresh, and thought I could ask
my VB programmer for a report with just the form name (such as
frmSelectAccount, for his reference), the Title Bar name (such as
Select Account, so I know what window we're talking about), and the
existing Help Context ID he has in there, if any. He searched
around and said there's no good way to capture/export this
information from VB, except to copy and paste the info from each
form into Excel. (And this guy knows his stuff, but he's never been
asked for anything like this.)
So the question is, do your VB programmers provide this
information to you (then how do they output it from VB?), or do you
just do what I do, and provide it to them.
(There are many new screens and it would be SOOO much easier
for me if they provided a list to me to work with.)
Thank you for any help/ideas.
Susan