Context Based Help

1. Context sensitive help - on click of help link from a
particular application page, the help application should open up
(if not already open) and the particular help page should open in
the right frame of the help application with the location of the
help page in look-up tree being highlighted.

aringen -
Hello again. I'll cut and paste from another post today:
To bring up the topic within the dual frame arrangement, try
the hashmark method: e.g.:
http://www.domainname.com/helpfolder/projectname.htm#specific_topic.htm
or, if using the Map ID's, perhaps this article will help:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=5177075f

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How to create context sensitive help and call the role based help from my Java Project?

Hello All,
I am new to Robo Help. I have created a Robo help for my Java Web Applicaion. My application is role base i.e some user's will not see some of the pages of the application. So I want to hide those pages in Robo help as well. I tried creating multiple TOC for different Roles.
My Question is
How to call robo Help from my application?(I will be calling using java script. If it is with RoboHelp_CSH.js where can I get that and How to implement it in my project)
How to implement role based help?
Thanks,
Siva.

I answered that. My point in asking whether it matters was that if it does, then you cannot use content categories and point different users to different categories and not allow them to see the others.
The alternative, as I said, would be to produce different outputs for each role.
As it does matter, then using webhelp you will have to use your RoboHelp project to produce a number of outputs, one for each category. Your app would install each webhelp into different folders and when your app determines the user role, you will link to the appropriate help.
There is another thread running where it has been explained by Willam van Weelden that you can achieve what you want using browser based AIR help. If that form of help can be considered, then the thread is at http://forums.adobe.com/message/4914753?tstart=0#4914753
Browser based AIR help must be run from a web server. It cannot be installed locally.
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
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How to create dynamic context based on a structure defined in the program?

Hi Experts,
         I need to create a dynamic context based on a structure wa_struc which i have define programatically.
When I pass wa_struc to structure_name parameter of create_nodeinfo_from_struc, i get a runtime error:
"Parameter STRUCTURE_NAME contains an invalid value wa_struc."
How to create dynamic context based on a structure defined in the program?
I have written the code like this:
TYPES: BEGIN OF t_type,
            v_carrid TYPE sflight-carrid,
            v_connid TYPE sflight-connid,
         END OF t_type.
Data: i_struc type table of t_type,
         wa_struc type t_type.
data: dyn_node   type ref to if_wd_context_node.
data: rootnode_info   type ref to if_wd_context_node_info.
rootnode_info = wd_context->get_node_info( ).
clear i_struc. refresh i_struc.
select carrid connid into corresponding fields of table i_struc from sflight where carrid = 'AA'.
cl_wd_dynamic_tool=>create_nodeinfo_from_struct(
parent_info = rootnode_info
node_name = 'dynflight'
structure_name = 'wa_struc'
is_multiple = abap_true ).
dyn_node = wd_context->get_child_node( name = 'dynflight' ).
dyn_node->bind_table( i_struc ).
Thanks
Gopal
Message was edited by: gopalkrishna baliga

Hi Michelle,
          First of all Special thanks for your informative answers to my other forum questions. I really appreciate your help.
Coming back to this question I am still waiting for an answer. Please help. Note that my structure is not in a dictionary.
I am trying to create a new node. That is
CONTEXT
- DYNFLIGHT
CARRID
CONNID
As you see above I am trying to create 'DYNFLIGHT' along with the 2 attributes which are inside this node. The structure of the node that is, no.of attributes may vary based on some condition. Thats why I am trying to create a node dynamically.
Also I cannot define the structure in the ABAP dictionary because it changes based on condition
I have updated my code like the following and I am getting error:
TYPES: BEGIN OF t_type,
CARRID TYPE sflight-carrid,
CONNID TYPE sflight-connid,
END OF t_type.
Data: i_struc type table of t_type,
dyn_node type ref to if_wd_context_node,
rootnode_info type ref to if_wd_context_node_info,
i_node_att type wdr_context_attr_info_map,
wa_node_att type line of wdr_context_attr_info_map.
wa_node_att-name = 'CARRID'.
wa_node_att-TYPE_NAME = 'SFLIGHT-CARRID'.
insert wa_node_att into table i_node_att.
wa_node_att-name = 'CONNID'.
wa_node_att-TYPE_NAME = 'SFLIGHT-CONNID'.
insert wa_node_att into table i_node_att.
clear i_struc. refresh i_struc.
select carrid connid into corresponding fields of table i_struc from sflight where carrid = 'AA'.
rootnode_info = wd_context->get_node_info( ).
rootnode_info->add_new_child_node( name = 'DYNFLIGHT'
attributes = i_node_att
is_multiple = abap_true ).
dyn_node = wd_context->get_child_node( 'DYNFLIGHT' ).
dyn_node->bind_table( i_struc ).
l_ref_interfacecontroller->set_data( dyn_node ).
But now I am getting the following error :
The following error text was processed in the system PET : Line types of an internal table and a work area not compatible.
The error occurred on the application server FMSAP995_PET_02 and in the work process 0 .
The termination type was: RABAX_STATE
The ABAP call stack was:
Method: IF_WD_CONTEXT_NODE~GET_STATIC_ATTRIBUTES_TABLE of program CL_WDR_CONTEXT_NODE_VAL=======CP
Method: GET_REF_TO_TABLE of program CL_SALV_WD_DATA_TABLE=========CP
Method: EXECUTE of program CL_SALV_WD_SERVICE_MANAGER====CP
Method: APPLY_SERVICES of program CL_SALV_BS_RESULT_DATA_TABLE==CP
Method: REFRESH of program CL_SALV_BS_RESULT_DATA_TABLE==CP
Method: IF_SALV_WD_COMP_TABLE_DATA~MAP_FROM_SOURCE_DATA of program CL_SALV_WD_C_TABLE_V_TABLE====CP
Method: IF_SALV_WD_COMP_TABLE_DATA~MAP_FROM_SOURCE of program CL_SALV_WD_C_TABLE_V_TABLE====CP
Method: IF_SALV_WD_COMP_TABLE_DATA~UPDATE of program CL_SALV_WD_C_TABLE_V_TABLE====CP
Method: IF_SALV_WD_VIEW~MODIFY of program CL_SALV_WD_C_TABLE_V_TABLE====CP
Method: IF_SALV_WD_COMPONENT~VIEW_MODIFY of program CL_SALV_WD_A_COMPONENT========CP
-Gopal
Message was edited by: gopalkrishna baliga

Context Senstive Help using CHM

Hi,
Is there an alternative to keyhelp.ocx to display context sensitive help based on size of content?
or
Is it possible to write a HTML code/Java script to control the individual page size of CHM in run-time?
Thanks,
Kumar

Hi Meenakshmi,
Check out this great article by John Daigle.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/robohelp/articles/context_help.html
Please also check out the following examples:
http://www.adobe.com/support/robohelp/webhelp.html
You may not find the exact content for the code calls, but
the links should help you get on the right track. There is also a
lot of useful information specifically for developers in Robohelps
own online help.
Kind Regards
Craig

Sample "REST" service for context based routing in OSB

Hi All,
We have a requirement where we have to do context based routing in OSB.For that, we need to have a Rest Service which should do context based routing.In the payload there will be Action tag, based on the Action tag we need to invoke corresponding Business service, if you have any sample service like this please send it to me.
As I am quite new to Rest services.It will be helpful if I get a sample service.
Thanks In Advance

http://prsync.com/oracle/restful-services-with-oracle-service-bus-6243/
http://blogs.oracle.com/jamesbayer/2008/07/using_rest_with_oracle_service.html
http://blogs.oracle.com/jeffdavies/2009/06/restful_services_with_oracle_s_1.html
Regards,
Anuj
Edited by: Anuj Dwivedi, TCS on Aug 17, 2010 3:02 PM

Need help with a Context Sensitive Help project

Hey everyone,
I'm the RoboHelp administrator around here - I've done some
RoboHelp projects and created the procedures, stylesheets and
templates for our company's WebHelp, WinHelp 2000, and JavaHelp
projects, but now I'm sort of the consultant for the content
authoring team that creates the help systems. I think I need to
call in some help from the forum about a project I'm consulting on.
Here's the situation: A project team here thinks they want
field-level help to support a web-based application. I've told them
"That's fine, it's possible, just don't demand that the help author
create topics for EVERY field, even the obvious ones like "Name",
"Address", "Zip", etc, since there is very, very little value in
doing that." We already have a very old help system that is being
CONVERTED to WinHelp 2000 (from a "mocked-up" version of WinHelp)
that did just that - every field in every screen was a separate
topic, even if it wasn't useful. Every topic was essentially "This
information goes in this field". As a result, we abandoned creating
an Index, since we had about 27 entries for "Name", 13 for
"Address1", 15 for "Address2", etc.
Well, I just heard back yesterday that they totally ignored
my suggestion and they want to go ahead with the "all help for all
fields" idea. I still think I have a chance of convincing them to
choose context-sensitive topics wisely, if it can present my case
clearly and be persuasive. I just found John Daigle's article about
context sensitive help (
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/robohelp/articles/context_help.html)
and I'm looking at it now (very well done, by the way - thanks
John!). It looks like, from first glance, that it might convince
that project team that "Whoa, this context-sensitive thing is more
than we bargained for", which is what I want them to think, since
they have very limited resources and a help author that is VERY new
to RoboHelp and WebHelp. I personally have never built a
context-sensitive help project with different windows, but I have
built several projects using conditional builds.
What does everyone think of this approach?
Thanks,
Jim

Here's a nice, convincing argument that I just thought of -
the only thing wrong with it is that I don't know if it's true or
not.
Does the end user's browser cache the .htm files for the help
topics that are grabbed from the server? If so, consolidating the
field definitions lessens the server traffic.
(Always get the server guys on your side - everywhere I've
worked, they wield a big stick!)
Also, I'm a big believer in functional help topics, but I
have compromised for some clients and included one-per-screen
conditional topics with the field labels. John, I wish I had known
about the map numbering trick back then - I would have loved to
give them F1 help.
Elisa

How to pass context based parameters to subquery?

Hello to All!
How to pass context based parameters to subquery of custom folder when I schedule workbook?
Thanks, Oleg

Hi Russ
Yes, I've done this too. Basic SQL though will not allow the updating of a table inside a function, so we have to get clever. The trick is to use the PRAGMA AUTONOMOUS TRANSACTION command. Here's an example:
FUNCTION UPDATE_MYTABLE(P_VALUE IN NUMBER)
RETURN VARCHAR2 IS
PRAGMA AUTONOMOUS_TRANSACTION;
BEGIN
UPDATE SCHEMA_OWNER.MY_TABLE SET MY_VALUE = P_VALUE;
COMMIT;
RETURN('Done');
END UPDATE_TABLE;
When the update has been completed the Discoverer worksheet will respond with 'Done'.
Everyone: don't forget to grant EXECUTE on this function to all of the necessary users, including the EUL owner, and also don't forget to import the function using the Admin edition so that it is available for the users. You will also need to make sure that all necessary users have been granted the UPDATE privilege on the table.
I hope this helps
Regards
Michael

How to implement context based auditing?

I am looking to implement context based auditing, auditing the reason for a change as well as the before and after values, change time etc.
One method that springs to mind would be to abstract the key tables behind an API and require the change reason whenever any DML is issued but does anyone out there have a better method that would be easier to implement and maintain.
Unfortunately I will be both retrofitting the solution to a current system as well as creating a new solution too so any suggestions would be welcomed.
Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
Ollie.

Ollie_J (OCP) wrote:
Thanks for the quick response but the auditing described in the links only audits changes but not fundamentally the CONTEXT of the change.
I need to record why a user was changing data not just what they were changing.This sort of thing, as Pavan has mentioned, is not available within the database. For example, you have updated a parameter through the alter system command so what is the context of this that you would audit in the first place? All what you can audit that what the user has fired i.e the alter statement. I am not sure that this actually would be good idea to do even but still, as suggested, try to use something through the application and/or from the table itself that can help tracking it.
Aman....

How can I reference an external help file from context sensitive help at the control level?

My goal is to provide context sensitive help for each control displayed on the front panel using a help file created externally. I know that at the VI level I can specify a Help Path; I want the same behaviour for each control inside a VI. I also know about creating a custom control and specifying the Help Path in there, but it doesn't help in this situation, for I have hundreds of controls in my application and I cannot go back and replace each one with a unique .ctl. If I could override each instance of the custom control with unique path data that would do the trick, but that's not how it works.
Is there a way to add the Help Path information to regualr controls?
-euge
ne

This functionality is not yet built into LabVIEW.
About all you can do is cut and paste the help for each control into the description for the control. It is tedius but a finite task.

Is there a way to open context-sensitive help in a new window with RH10?

I'm linking my context sensitive help using the RoboHelp_CSH.js file to my web application.
The correct topic opens when I click the help link, but it opens in a pop-up window. This causes problems in Firefox and Chrome (which block pop-ups by default).
Is there anyway to force the context-sensitive help topics to open in a new window?
I've tried adding
<p><A HREF="javascript:RH_ShowHelp(0,'http:/myurl/index.htm', HH_HELP_CONTEXT, 100)" target="_blank">Help</A>
which opens an empty tab in Firefox with no content in it. And it doesn't work in Chrome either.
Has anyone else run into this? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Colleen

Hi and welcome to the forums.
Using the RoboHelp API, that is quite a bother. (Read: major pain)
Fortunately, there is a simple solution:
<a href="http://myurl/index.htm#<id=4>>newwnd=false" target="blank">Help<a/>
This link does exactly the same, only opens the help in a new browser window.
You may also be interested in my custom WebHelp API: http://www.wvanweelden.eu/blog/2012/08/03/custom-webhelp-apis
Greet,
Willam

Muddled context sensitive help ids

Hi All
I've done some quite major updates to a help project,
including the creation of new context sensitive help Map Ids.
When I generate the help I get two files, cshdat_webhelp.htm
and cshdat_robohelp.htm. The cshdat_webhelp.htm contains the
correct map ids, however cshdat_robohelp.htm is still picking up
old IDs and some that look like random IDs, and this appears to be
the file that is called from the top level file
(projectname_rhc.htm) that the application calls. We can't get the
app to work with the projectname_csh.htm, so we need to use the
projectname_rhc.htm and cshdat_robohelp.htm files.
The only map file used in the project is the BSSCDefault.h
file, which only contains the correct IDs. I can't understand where
it is picking up the old/incorrect map IDs from. Can anyone please
help??
Thanks in advance,
Emma.

In case this is of use to anyone else, I found that there was
a .ppf file (whatever that is) in the directory, which was somehow
messing with the cshdat_robohelp.htm file. I deleted this, and hey
presto, problem solved.
Emma.

Cannot get simple merged HTML Help project going with context sensitive help

I have built a very simple project in RH9 from scratch, consisting of a main project and a sub-project now after I have modified our large project in changing every hyphens from file and directory names over a couple of days now only to see that context help still doesn't work.
The map IDs are not visible in the main project. To test it in the example, invoke the CSH-Test (context sensitive help test) from the Toolbox, enter !SSL!\Microsoft_HTML_Help\main.chm in the Offline field and a number 57 in the ID field. In our large project I'm getting nothing (no window pops up). In this example I'm getting this mystical error box, saying HH_HELP_CONTEXT called without a [MAP] section.
Christoph

Hi William,
thanks having a look at my problem. I read in another thread today a description which comes close to the problem I'm facing.
Maybe I formed the mini sample not exactly as our problem is situated. (thus the doubled map ids you were claiming).
I will try to explain again: we have a couple of CHMs in separate single help projects. These go into their own TOCs, Index Glossar etc. like in sub1->Einzel. For the merged project we produce a chm that goes into the directory of the master (main) project, like in sub1->Primäres Layout.
Each Topic in the sub project (e.g. sub1->Erstes Thema) has a symbolic link address (e.g. "Linkadresse=det_org_angaben), which is mapped to the MAP ID via the .h file.
This all used to work that way in RH5.
Now it seems that this information between the map ID and the symbolic Linkaddress gets lost with the merge process.
I am not using the same ID (57) twice in my example. The MAP ID in the main project comes from the sub1 project (see the yellow locked MAP ID).
The simplest test is using the CSH-Test in the Toolbox giving the main.chm as the Helpfile to test and enter the 57 as a MAP ID.
The idea behind is to use one CHM later to have to open in the application. The other CHMs of the subprojects only need to be present in the application directory. Then you invoke HtmlHelp(with the MAPID),like I posted in this thread.
The method you are suggesting in mapping the ID to the topic in the main project will not work since the topic is in the CHM of the sub project.
I modified the sample project once again (somehow the baggage files were not showing) to come closer to the constellation we are using in the large project, though I'm getting the "HH_HELP_CONTEXT called without a [MAP] section" error (which does not occur in our large project).
Christoph

Context-sensitive help breaking in RoboHelp 8

Peter - you're a lifesaver and I hope you're out there today . . . or somebody's out there who can help . . .
I shouldn't have said that in my last post about something being the "wackiest" thing I'd ever seen in RoboHelp. Now we have a new problem that's much more serious.
We have an aforementioned (in previous post) enormous RoboHelp 5 project, converted to RoboHelp 8 after much anguish, replacing hundreds of WYSIWYG graphics with true code etc. Map IDs were *not* touched.
Now the context-sensitive help for our VB app is not working, even though the map IDs are still in place on both ends (dev and docs) and all the relevant .hh files were included in my compile. Some topics (within the same help file) appear when called from the app, some don't.
A developer had a theory that in one case the topic ID was assigned (on their end) during design time, the other during run time. He's testing it now.
If it doesn't work, I have no idea where to begin. Is anyone aware of any changes in RoboHelp 8 that would affect the way the .hlp links to VB?
Thank you! - Sandy

Hi all,
I wanted to thank everyone who responded and post a follow-up to this, as well as a caution.
I felt like the world's biggest *** when I found this out, but it turns out that in my .doc files for this particular .hlp file (our project includes multiple .hlps) "Automatically Generate Map IDs" was turned on, and of course it should not have been. So the problem was on my end, not the software developers' end.
However - part of the reason it took me so long to figure this out is that I know I never turned that setting on. The other writer on this project has been here longer than I have and never would have turned it on. And it's not like that command is easy to stumble upon and set off accidentally (For those of you who don't know, it's under File>>Project Settings in RoboHelp Explorer). I have to think that RoboHelp defaulted those settings in somehow, maybe during our conversion from 5 to 8.
(Unless someone knows a way that you *can* just stumble on this setting and trigger it accidentally, maybe by inserting some random character in your .hpj . . . if anyone does, I would love to know about it.)
So, especially if you just changed versions of RoboHelp, I would encourage you to be proactive and, if you don't want "Automatically Generate Map IDs" turned on, double-check and make sure nothing is selected for Automatic Map ID Generation on the "Map Files" tab of the Project Settings dialog. After what happened to me this last time around, I'm probably going to check it every time I compile. - why not add another neurosis to the list?
Thanks again - Sandy

Context-Sensitive Help Issues

I have problem where context-sensitive help markers disappear
from my .h files.
I started with a .h file from my old WebWorks project. After
a little reformatting, I was able to get the CSH Map IDs to load
and map properly to my RH topics (I had to do the mapping manually
even though the topic names were the same) . I was also able to add
several new Map IDs to facilitate help in the latest version of our
product. The final help was tested and worked properly.
Now that it's time to update the help for another new release
of our product, I am noticing that many, many of the Map IDs that
were in my project before have now disappeared. Anybody have any
idea what is happening here?
I'm sick of struggling to get RH to play nice with these .h
files. Manually remapping the Map IDs to the topics each time we
release a new project is terribly dull work and time consuming.
Is there any way to add the Map ID numbers to the CSH markers
in FM so that RH can automatically map the IDs to the topics? I
want to use the Map IDs we already have established with our
development team; I don't want RH's automapping which starts at one
and advances incrementally through all of your topics).

I think you dint check the option "Project Map File" from drop down list in the dialog box for editing Map ids. For this, in the main menu point to "Edit" tab, select "Map Id's". Edit Map Ids dialog box appears. Choose the option for Map File as "Project Map File" from the drop down list.

Does Robohelp HTML V 7.02.001 support Arabic language to generate context sensitive help

Kindly let us know URGENTLY if RoboHelp 7.02.001 supports Arabic language to generate context sensitive help in Arabic. If RoboHelp does not support, let us know if there is any other workaround solution or third party integration tool that may help us to generate Arabic help files.

The supported languages are listed in the help file, they do not include right to left languages.
There are no tools that I know of but last week there was a post that might interest you.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2242235#2242235
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