How do I search our website and our Help system?

[jbushe]

I guess I'd like our Help system to function more like RoboHelp's or Microsoft's. That is, when we click the Help button, I want to be able to search just the Help file and/or the help and a bunch of documents, webinars, etc. from a website. Is this possible?

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

If you use AIRHelp, you can include external websites in the resources to be searched.

[jbushe]

What within the website is searched? We have a page on our intranet that

lists webinars and other trainings. I really am a novice with this.

Janice E. Bushe

Technical Writer

x 6996

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

I've never really looked at what it's searching for when it goes to external websites, but I would imagine it would find text strings for sure. It may check metadata tags on the web pages too for all I know. Pull down a demo of RH9 and play around with it.

[jbushe]

Can I use V8?

Janice E. Bushe

Technical Writer

x 6996

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Sure, it had AIRHelp in it too as an SSL layout. See Peter Grainge's site (www.grainge.org) for info on AIRHelp.

[Peter Grainge]

It looks like you want to search more than is in a RoboHelp output. If so maybe something like ZoomSearch is what you want. That could search your project output and other sources.

See my site.

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