Help with Context Sensitive Help

[pmcardle]

Hi everyone,

I'm new to this forum. I am presently building an online Help Guide in RoboHelp 6 for ASP software. The Help Guide will reside on the application's server and link to the application, which is accessed through a Web browser.

My first look at the context sensitive help instruction in RoboHelp seems to indicate that it requires a programmatic language, not html. According to the documentation the support is only for applications coded in pascal, c/c++, java and Visual basic. Our ASP application is coded in Perl and as such won’t be able to use this feature, unless in fact it is possible to code it to the HTML in the interface. I can't figure out from RoboHelp's documentation if this is possible.

If someone could tell me whether I can utilize context sensitive help coded to the HTML, I sure would appreciate it.

Thanks!

Peter

[Roger_N]

Peter -

Welcome to the forum.

Since you are building web-based help, Webhelp is the output of choice here. Conveniently, I have the gist of the previous posts on the subject still on my clipboard/memory... so, I'll just paste it again. You can call the specific help pages either with:

the hashmark method: e.g.:

http://www.domainname.com/helpfolder/projectname.htm#specific_topic.htm

or, if you use the Map ID's, found in RH's context-sensitive API, perhaps this article will help:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=5177075f

[Peter Grainge]

Just to add to Roger's reply, there is more information about those methods on my website.