.CHM Context Sensitive Help - Any Best Practice advice?

Hi,
Using RH9 and generating .CHM as the output.
I need to create context sensitive help that will work at screen level only. The project has around 600 help topics. I know i can autogenerate the MAP file using RH and pass this to development for them to plumb into the system which seems the quickest way. I know I could also manually map the 200 or so topics that refer to each screen in the application but that will take much longer (but will reduce the size of map file).
This is for a version of the help that has already changed i.e, I am now working on another version of the help so there are changes including new topics being added, some removed or renamed etc.
Is it ok to autogenerate on the first build, then import this map file into new updated project?. Any pitfalls I should be aware of before starting or not?
Generally what is others experience?
PDF Boy.

Hi, glad I could help.
There are certain javascript calls which will close the window automatically when focus is shifted somewhere else, but there are gotchas. You will notice Yahoo and some airline sites that have popup calendars face the same problem.
Not all browsers (or older versions) observe those newer calls dependably. So we are stuck with asking the user to close them. If I understand what you want, you could enable the Show button. This would show the Navigation pane and the rest of the topics so your user could proceed deeper. Still, they will have to close the window! Alternatively you could manually put link "arrows" in the top right of the topic and let them navigate to whatever topic you choose. But, that's time consuming and even this trick is not accessed by F1, so I'm reaching here .
What we really need is a browse sequence button that can be placed in the topic itself rather than those dinky arrows in the Navigation pane. I have requested this feature and maybe you could add your request here https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform&product=38
Thanks!
John Daigle
www.showmethedemo.com

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