Linking to TOC Books

Greetings,
I am using RX7 to develop a WebHelp project. My client would
like to have Splash page which allows the user to click a link and
display a specific TOC Book.
I can meet the client requirement by creating separate
projects and linking from the Splash page to the project.
Is it possible to create a single project, have the Splash
page display and then open a specific book when the corresponding
link is clicked?
Thanks,

I suggest creating a topic that is your splash page. Then, in
the Properties dialog of the TOC book in the TOC pod, link a topic
to the book. Next, the link on the splash page would point to the
topic that is linked to the book.
If you don't want the splash page in the TOC, you could leave
it out.
Hope this helps,
Ben

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Links in TOC books

I'm working with RoboHelp X5 in a HTML help project. I have a
project example that has links to the TOC books. You click in a
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do books with links, but I don't know how to link text to TOC
books.

Hi kamarques and welcome to the forums.
I'm not sure I understand exactly what you are trying to do.
When you link to a book in the TOC, you are actually just
connecting that book to a topic. If you want to link text to that
same topic, you would just select that topic when you hyperlink the
text.
I hope this helps
John

Webhelp RH8: TOC book not linking to topic

Hi (again),
I seem to have another little issue.
In generating our helpsystem, we would like to have books that display general information when clicked and also display the subsequent topics. That all works fine, I link a topic to the TOC book and it displays the contents of the selected page.
However, when I only have a book (no topics), linking a topic does not work. In the output it displays as a page. Is there a way I can have a book linked to a topic while there are no other topics in that book?

Thanks RoboColum(n) for your pointer. Due to time limitations I could only look at it briefly and give it one try. Redirecting didn't work in this instance. I have a few redirect pages which work fine but so far I haven't managed to get a book to display when there is only one page in that book. For now I have avoided the problem by having an empty page when the book is clicked. Not pretty and I will be looking at this again when there is more time.

Best way to handle duplicate headings stemming from linked TOC book?

What's the best way to handle duplicate topic titles stemming from TOC books that contain links to a topic that you want to have appear in the body? The problem I've had for years now is that the TOC generates one heading, and the topic itself generates one heading.This results in duplicate headings in the printed output.
I have a large ~2500 topic project I have to print every release, and to date we've been handling it in post-build word macros, but it's not 100% effective, so we're looking to fix this issue on the source side of the fence. On some of our smaller projects, we've actually marked with the heading in the topic itself with the Online CBT and that seems to work. We're thinking of doing the same to our huge project unless there's a better way of handling this. Any suggestions?

See the tip immediately above this link. http://www.grainge.org/pages/authoring/printing/rh9_printing.htm#wizard_page3
The alternative is to remove the topic from the print layout so that it only generates by virtue of its link to the book.
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
@petergrainge

TOC - Books Linked to Topics?

I'm hoping that I'm just overlooking something and that my suspicion isn't true.
I have chapters, several levels deep of subchapters and then, of course, my topcs.
Something like this...
Help Root
     L Chapter Top
          L Subchapter
               L Subsubchapter
                    L Topic
I want each of my chapters to link to topics - basically introductory pages that I can't have at the same level as the topics because it woudn't make sense. I seem to be able to do this in RoboHelp HTML but not in RoboHelp for Word?

I think your suspicion is true. You cannot add a link to a book in the TOC when using RH for Word. You also can't have a page under a page in the format you describe or a book under a page. All pages do fall before books when it comes to the TOC hierarchy.
Book
     page
     page
     book
          page
     book
     page
An alternative you might want to think about is to put each chapter in one topic. Then add mid-topic links to the subsections on the page. You could also include this mid-topics in the Index. At the top of the chapter, build the contents of that section and make jumps to the mi-topics on the page. At the top, you could also include your intro.
Another alternative is to build an overview page with your intro.
Book
     overview page
     page
     book
          overview page
          page
     book
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     page

New TOC Book not appearing in WebHelp output

Hi
My project is proceeding fairly well, considering I've only
been using RH for about six weeks - thanks, in no small part, to
the advice I've found in this forum. I'm hoping someone can help me
with a niggling problem I'm having.
My project is based on a textbook written by my colleagues.
RH has successfully imported all the header formatting from Word
and the resulting TOC is almost perfect. My problem is that my
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I'd like to have an entry in the TOC that gives the chapter
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Hi Colin.
You may be able to do just this with a bit of wizardry! Check
out the RoboWizard's
tips
'n tricks file. It has help on how to set-up redirect topics.
Create one of these and assign it to the book. The redirect topic
would then just redirect the user to another topic.

TOC Book Not Working Properly

Offering this info for anyone else who might run into a similar situation. When reviewing the browse sequence for an RH 10 project, I noticed one topic (page) displaying where a TOC book should have been. The topic being displayed was the topic associated with the book, but the book's subtopics were not being displayed. The topic being displayed for the book included a link to a subtopic listed for the book in the RH project, but the link was dead. The link for the topic worked fine when using the CTRL+W to view the topic from RH. To resolve the issue, I tried deleting and re-adding the book. Recompiled. No change. I repositioned the book (it happened to begin with the same few words as the two previously listed books, and I wanted to eliminate the possibilty of an issue based on beginning multiple books with the same text). No change. Deleted .cpd file (it was over 5MB), opened the project to recreate .cpd file, and then recompiled again. No change. Copied and pasted text from all topics involved into new topics of the same screen name but assigned new .htm page names (so topic text and screen names were identical). Updated links to match newly created topics. Re-added book to TOC. Recompiled. This worked. TOC book now displayed with subtopics, and link from main topic to subtopic was functional again. Anyone else run into something like this, where a TOC book did not display correctly, possibly as a result of a corrupt topic/page within the book that appeared to work fine in RH project?

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TOC Book Problem - RoboHelp 8 - WebHelp Pro

Hello, I'm having a problem in a generated build of help to RoboServer 8. TOC books are linking to the previous page of the toc book above that particular book and this rings true throughout the TOC. I didn't add any links and just wanted to books to be just that books and when you click the book the subtopics within that book should display. Anyone have this problem and what can I do? I see that I can link the book to a particular page, but don't really want that. Any suggestions to correct this problem quickly. We just had a release of our product over the weekend and this is causing quite a stir. Thanks, Lana

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These are simple images. See if the link below helps.
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It has been a couple of months since the 'TOC books don't
open in Firefox' issue was raised, so I was hoping that someone
might be able to help with my problem that seems to be closely
related...
Problem: I am generating WebHelp using RoboHelp for HTML
version 7 and viewing in Firefox 2.0.0.11. The TOC books don't open
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opened them manually. If I manually open half the books, then only
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searching for topics, etc. When I re-open the WebHelp I have to
manually open all the books again before Firefox will autosync.
This also happens in the simplest of WebHelp projects with just two
books.
Attempts to fix problem: I have made all the changes to files
suggested on the forums and Peter Grainge's (excellent) site. My
default topic is not within a book and is at the top of the TOC.
None of my books are linked to topics. Adobe's official line is "no
issues with Firefox", so they don't know of this problem. I did not
have this problem when using RoboHelp 6.
I need to know if I am alone in experiencing this problem -
if so there is obviously something wrong with my setup, so I will
concentrate on the way that I am using RoboHelp and its
configuration, etc.
If anyone reading this has, or has not, experienced this
problem, please let me know - many thanks.

It has been a couple of months since the 'TOC books don't
open in Firefox' issue was raised, so I was hoping that someone
might be able to help with my problem that seems to be closely
related...
Problem: I am generating WebHelp using RoboHelp for HTML
version 7 and viewing in Firefox 2.0.0.11. The TOC books don't open
in Firefox (IE is okay) via autosync unless I have previously
opened them manually. If I manually open half the books, then only
those books will autosync - it's as if Firefox has to be shown each
book before it will automatically open it when browsing or
searching for topics, etc. When I re-open the WebHelp I have to
manually open all the books again before Firefox will autosync.
This also happens in the simplest of WebHelp projects with just two
books.
Attempts to fix problem: I have made all the changes to files
suggested on the forums and Peter Grainge's (excellent) site. My
default topic is not within a book and is at the top of the TOC.
None of my books are linked to topics. Adobe's official line is "no
issues with Firefox", so they don't know of this problem. I did not
have this problem when using RoboHelp 6.
I need to know if I am alone in experiencing this problem -
if so there is obviously something wrong with my setup, so I will
concentrate on the way that I am using RoboHelp and its
configuration, etc.
If anyone reading this has, or has not, experienced this
problem, please let me know - many thanks.

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Paul
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Hi kamarques and welcome to the forums.
I'm not sure I understand exactly what you are trying to do.
When you link to a book in the TOC, you are actually just
connecting that book to a topic. If you want to link text to that
same topic, you would just select that topic when you hyperlink the
text.
I hope this helps
John

Automatically Expand TOC Books

Hi all you experts out there!!!
Is it possible to automatically expand top level TOC books
when the help file is opened?
If so, how can I do it.
Thanks so much for your help, Susan

Hi Roy
Here it is for WebHelp:
And here it is for CHM
Cheers... Rick
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Is there any way to determine if a link is a book mark or hyperlink in java script

Is there any way to determine if a link is a book mark or hyperlink in java script
Sub Problem:
I am making an array of quads of all the hyperlinks in a document. I would like to automatically skip over all the bookmarks in the starting pages of a document and just get the links of the hyperlinks.
Now I have to manually set the pages that contain bookmarks so they are not included in the array.
Is there any way to determine if a link is a book mark or hyperlink in java script?
It would help automate the conversion I need below
John
Main Problem:
I have been working on converting a set of pdf files with 1000’s of hyperlinks like www.site.com\folder1\file1.pdf#page=10
To jump to a local copy of the files with a relative type link
../folder1/file1.pdf and then go to the proper page.
I have found that it can be done manually by changing the hyperlink to a javascript
var otherDoc = app.openDoc('../folder1/file1.pdf', this);otherDoc.pageNum = 10 - 1;
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Four folder level acrobat javascripts with “buttons”
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The third jumps to each link found by creating a form field just to the left of the link and zooms in so it can be selected by a “mouse click” from the keyboard macro recorder
The forth deletes the form field
The keyboard macro recorder runs javascript 2 and then 3 then clicks on the link just to the right of the middle of the screen and uses keys to get to the advanced editing to get to edit the hyperlink .
The hyperlink is then copied to excel where it is converted using string functions to the needed javascript text to be copied back.
To the acrobat file into a java script (after deleting the hyperlink)
Rinse/lather/repeat
I have been able to convert about 150 links an hour.
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I am looking to improve the solution

thanks for your help.
I may have been confusing a "acrobat bookmark" and a bookmark in a word file that is converted to a pdf and ends up being a
link of the type:
"Go to a page in this document"
which I do not want in my array vs
a link of the action type:
"Open a web link"
Which I do want
John
My code, note how I have to skip pages with "Go to a page in this document" links depending on the document, I would like to use the same code for each document and skip over the "Go to a page in this document" links :
global.ilinkindex = 1;
global.aLinkquads = [ [0, 1, 1, 0, 0],
       [0, 0, 0, 0, 0] ];
function GetLinkArray()
global.ilinkindex = 1;
var iTotalLinks=0;
// for ( var p = 0; p < this.numPages - 8 ; p++)                   // end before bookmarks for each page of the file x.pdf
// for ( var p = 0; p < this.numPages; p++)                     // for each page of the file
for ( var p = 23; p < this.numPages; p++)                     // start after bookmarks for each page of the file y.pdf
var cropbox = this.getPageBox("Crop", p);
var alinksonpage = this.getLinks(p, cropbox);            // get array of links on page
for ( var ll = 0; ll < alinksonpage.length; ll++)
   var linkquads = alinksonpage[ll].rect;     // get link Quads
   linkquads[4] = p;          // add page number to link Quads array
    global.aLinkquads[global.ilinkindex] = linkquads; // add quads to global link Quads array
    global.ilinkindex++;
iTotalLinks = global.aLinkquads.length - 1;
global.ilinkindex = 1;
app.alert("Number of Links in Document is " + iTotalLinks );

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My question : What is the correct way to get links to specific ibooks and publisher pages and on the iBookstore - as I have had trouble with mine.
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Similarly on the books themselves they have links to their publisher pages.
• Firstly, I can't work out how to link to a book which hasn't been published yet - So at the back of my samples I put a button next which links to my 'Publishers Page' (see below)
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Apple has recently introduced 'short links'. That document requires a developer account to access, but this may be of interest:
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Greek Fonts for TOC Book and Topic Titles

Good Morning.
I Create o project using RoboHelp for HTML.
I rename TOC book and topic titles using greek fonts.
If i generate the project using Webhelp as layout with
Section 508 Compliant Output everything is ok at runtime but if i
use Skin TOC book and topic titles display wrong fonts on runtime.
I'd like to know if there is solution for this problem.
Thanks for help.

Hi Scottie
What Colum proposed is the standard answer we have been giving for years and presently it's likely the best approach.
However, Adobe does listen to their customers. And I've seen this particular issue cropping up time and again through the years. So I'm going to suggest to you that you and everyone else wanting to see some changes here consider submitting a Wish Form to ask for a new capability. Ask Adobe to devise a way to allow the user to print in the manner you are seeking.
Click here to reach the Wish Form page
Cheers... Rick

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