Custom Buttons in FlashPro/TOC Collapser

Hello all.
My project is a native RH 6 project (it was not imported from
anything else), generated as FlashHelp Pro. I have two questions:
1) is there a way to add a custom button and place it next to
the other three at the top? I've gotten several requests for a
"Home" button. Keep in mind I'm in FlashHelp Pro here. Yes, I know
you can accomplish similar results with a Header Template &
apply it to all the topics, but I wish to spare you the entire
explanation of why that can't work all the time (you're going to
have to trust me here). I'd prefer to know whether a custom button
can be made or not.
2) Is there a way of easily collapsing a TOC (I was thinking
of maybe...a button click?) that has all it's books open and has
become 37 meters high because of it? This is also a popular
request. I'd like to retain the "Show Navigation Links in Topics"
option if possible. So essentially, I want my cake and eat it too.
Thanks in advance!
-hpankin

Hi hpankin
Question here. Are you publishing your FlashHelp Pro output
to RoboHelp Server? If not, the point of creating FlashHelp Pro
output is moot.
To create a button requires Flash programming skills. A rare
breed that is. Someone that understands both Flash and RoboHelp
skins. Good luck with that. I'm not there. I WANNA be really bad,
but unfortunately haven't yet figured out how to cram 72 hours in a
day.
As for resetting the TOC, you should be able to construct a
link that simply reloads the FlashHelp system. Once you do this,
the TOC should start life anew.
Cheers... Rick

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I have two CHM files.
One contains English content, the other has French content. We're okay with having to change Windows display language to French in order to see the localized interface. It would be great to force it to French without having to do that, but it's better than nothing.
I have a handy dandy little javascript in my master page to flip between topics in the two CHM files. This is where my problems begin.
My flipping back and forth works great but the TOC does not auto-sync despite me having that checkbox enabled on the windows in both projects.
Then I added a Custom Button in each project (let's call it Cat in English and Chat in French) that points to a Redirect Topic (using the meta refresh method) to launch a Remote Topic. The redirection works great but again, the TOC does not auto-sync.
Getting back to my English/French setup... let's say I'm in the English project CHM, I change my display language to French, all of the interface buttons change to French except my Custom Button which is still "Cat". From what I've read, I'm guessing there's no way around this? I'd rather not have to put "Cat/Chat" for the Custom Button text or leave it as is where it will stick out like a sore thumb unless my display language always matches my language content.
Any suggestions or am I stuck with what I have?

You have two different CHM files, right? One in English and one in French.
Correct... one English, one French.
Yay! I understood!
I'm assuming your JavaScript allows displaying the matching topic from the other language? If so, isn't the matching topic simply replacing the topic that was there before? Here's where it gets real fuzzy. The TOC should already be synced to the topic. Are you saying it loses focus or something?
My javascript determines the matching topic from the other CHM and changes the window location to the other topic. If I'm in the English help, on an English topic and click my French link, the link opens the corresponding French topic but my TOC never changes to the French TOC - it's still showing the English one.
Okay, so that's not really a synchronization issue. In my view, synchronization means expanding and highlighting the page in the TOC so the user may see where they were.
If there are two projects, one in English and one in French, each project would have its own Custom Button definition, right? So why not enter Chat in the French project?
I would have Chat in the French project for the Custom Button... the confusion would be if I open the French CHM while my Windows display language is English or change my Windows display language to French and open the English CHM. In those scenarios, the interface buttons will be correct but the Custom Button text will match the content language rather than the interface language - that's when it will look wrong.
Gotcha.
Personally, assuming I'm correctly understanding this setup, I would think you are somewhat asking for trouble if you allow a click within a topic to change the language. I would think it to be a better solution just to keep the user inside the same help file. Choose the language at the beginning if you like, but remain in that language until the file is closed.
Ah, but the end users want on-the-fly translation by topic without having to open the other CHM and find the topic all over again. This is CSH, so the user may very well have gotten directly to a topic and would like to see the other language immediately. Essentially, it should be as though the user closed the current CHM, opened the other CHM and located the exact same topic - instantaneously
I'm thinking that perhaps a possible answer would involve using an HTML Help Shortcut control to launch a new instance of the viewer. Open the CHM for the correct language and display the relevant topic. What I think you will have issues with here is that the CHM viewer adapts to the language of the operating system I believe. So I'm not sure the TOC will know how to dynamically interpret you want French or English. Maybe it will based on the language choice in RoboHelp. But I'd be surprised if it worked that way.
Hopefully Pete Lees will see this thread and pop in to offer some other insight.
Pffft Pffft tap tap tap... is this thing on? Earth to Pete. Calling Pete. Pete, are you there and monitoring this frequency? ... - - - .... ---.--
Cheers... Rick
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Hi again
Sorry, but the nature of these beasties is that the state is
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I want to add custom button in the AVL report for FL10G transaction. And then need to implement logic for that button (calling BAPI to create shipment for the selected records).
For VL10G alv program GUI Status - STANDARD001 I think I can add button in this gui by using access key.
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Please let me know if any one has any ideas on this issue.
I appreciate your help and time on this.
Thanks.
M

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The standard program it will not allow to copy the GUI Status. Because source and target program should not same.
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CODE
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I created my own Planning Book and Dataview in SNP with 3 Key Figures: KF1, KF2, KF3. Now I want to create one my own button with Macro so that when I press that button, the Macro will run to calculate: KF3 = KF1 + KF2.
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Hi,
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<html>
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Query:
While click the custom button(which i have created in Customer Master) , the subscreen is displayed but the Custom Button is missing.Where in Standard Buttons like 'GENERAL DATA' and 'COMPANY CODE DATA' Std buttons in Customer master Etc. buttons going to disable mode while click these button in custome mastar.
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