4 Replies Latest reply: Sep 22, 2014 11:00 AM by TonyDC RSS

    How to display the master TOC when using Context help in a merged document

    TonyDC Community Member
    TonyDC Aug 22, 2014 2:08 AM

      I use Robohelp 10. I have created a large Merged Webhelp project and I have set out the project master with nothing in it other than merged projects place markers.

      This is the layout of the generated projects etc.

      Generate

                Master.htm

                     Redirect.htm  (Home page is a redirect to Project 1 Home Page - not in TOC)

      mergedProjects

                Project1

                    Home Page.htm

                Project2

                     Redirect.htm  (Home page is a redirect to Project 1 Home Page - not in TOC)

                Project3 etc.

                      Redirect.htm  (Home page is a redirect to Project 1 Home Page - not in TOC)

       

      I can get the help to work great when I call up the master page, which shows the TOC for the whole project and the default home page. And from the breadcrumb the home link goes to the home page and shows the Main TOC

       

      However when I call a page using context help ID I get a single frame with the selected page. The link to show the TOC shows the TOC but it is the top of the merged project and not the master TOC. The home link in the does display the home page but again the displayed TOC is the one of the current merged project.

      The question is :

      How can I get the Master TOC to show all the time regardless of what page I call using a context ID or how can I create a link that will take me back to the Master TOC?

       

      I remember when I created a previous help file for chm output I had to modify all the ali files in order for the redirect to work throught the master chm. Surely this is not the case with webhelp?

      TonyC

      • 127 Views
      • Tags:
        • 1. Re: How to display the master TOC when using Context help in a merged document
          Willam van Weelden CommunityMVP
          Willam van Weelden Aug 26, 2014 12:47 AM (in response to TonyDC)

          Take a look at: Merged Help on Peter's site. Perhaps that has an answer for you. Otherwise, I'm hoping Peter will jump in to grace us with this knowledge.

           

          Kind regards,

           

          Willam

          • 2. Re: How to display the master TOC when using Context help in a merged document
            Peter Grainge CommunityMVP
            Peter Grainge Aug 26, 2014 12:57 AM (in response to Willam van Weelden)

            I don't use Map IDs with merged help, only because that is the way things were set up here fifteen years ago and it ain't broke yet. I believe Colum has posted on this in the past.

             

            Parcel passed to you Colum.

             

            See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

             

             

            @petergrainge

            • 3. Re: How to display the master TOC when using Context help in a merged document
              RoboColum(n) MeganK
              RoboColum(n) Sep 2, 2014 4:09 AM (in response to Peter Grainge)

              I am a bit confused despite your fairly detailed summary of your setup. Hopefully you can help me understand what you have there and then I can help. My question is, do all the redirects go to the Home Page.htm in Project 1?

               

              Also I could be wrong here but I believe the breadcrumbs feature is based on the TOC. So if the home page in project 1 is not in the TOC, you can not have the breadcrumbs link to it.

              • 4. Re: How to display the master TOC when using Context help in a merged document
                TonyDC Community Member
                TonyDC Sep 22, 2014 11:00 AM (in response to RoboColum(n))

                I am sorry that I didn't get back to all you guys that took to answering my very promptly. Unfortunately I was not in a position to answer to the suggestions made. as I was away from my computer which had Robohelp on.

                Anyway, I did try a couple of scripts mentioned, but didn't really have any success i achieving what I need to do.

                 

                I set up a redirect which redirected to the main home page. I tried setting the home page in a  main sub-project - so the redirect when from any sub project

                 

                Generate

                     Master-project.htm (Home Page = Help_Welcome.htm)

                merged Projects

                SubProject1

                            [Home Page =  home_redirect.htm (a redirect see below) ]

                     SubProject 2

                            [Home Page =  home_redirect.htm (a redirect see below) ]

                     SubProject 3

                            [Home Page =  home_redirect.htm (a redirect see below) ]

                Clip01.jpg

                                                          

                home_redirect.htm  (a redirect use by sub-topics)

                <!--

                   window.location="../../ Help_Welcome.htm ";

                //-->

                //]]></script>

                 

                This setup works fine as long as I call the master page. The TOC is as I would want. However if I call an ID from my application I get the required page to display and I can get the TOC to show. The problem is that the TOC is from the current sub-project and not the master project as I would want.