Modifying Index Entries

Hello All,
In WebHelp, by editing the whibody.htm file, I am able to
have the primary index entries appear in bold font. I like the
visual appeal to has for the users. Is it possible to modify the
primary index entries in a .chm file, so they appear in a bold
font? If so, how is this accomplished?
Thanks,

Hi all
To my knowledge there simply isn't any way to coax any sort
of formatting with index entries inside a compiled .CHM file. You
can only do it via WebHelp as indicated.
Cheers... Rick

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available for foreign keys.
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What about Primary keys?Does designer generate Index entries for Primary keys also??
Kindly Help.

To clarify, your index entries were in the database but NOT defined in Des 1.3.2 model? Because if they were in the model, then I'd look back at your intermediate migration definitions to make sure the indexes were still defined properly in there.
In Des 2.1/6.0/6i/9i/10g, Indexes are a separate sub-element (SACs) for a Table Definition. They don't have to be associated with a key structure. And in newer database versions, a PK / UK has an implicit index constructed for it in the database, so Designer doesn't bother showing you the Index in the model. Just the PK or UK itself (again, these are also separate SACs).
And it's not clear where you're getting the error. During the generate? Or during the instantiation into a database? Neither situation is a common fault.

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This is strange.
I have a number of index entries as follows:
troubleshooting/file problems
troubleshooting/login problems
troubleshooting/printer problems
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I recompiled the HTML Help, just in case I was looking at an old version and no, they're not there.
I searched for them in the Index tab, thinking maybe they were somehow out of order, but they're truly not there.
Any idea what could be causing this? I'm using RoboHelp 9.

I don't know how to apply conditional build tags against an index, so I didn't do that -- at least not deliberately
I looked at the HTML, the Advanced tab in Topic properties, and the TOC page properties. I don't see anything there that looks like a Condition setting. I looked at the HTML externally (that is, went to Windows Explorer and double-clicked the file and then looked at the HTML source). Couldn't see anything. I launched the .chm file and then looked at the HTML for that topic. Still couldn't see anything.
I opened the .hhk file and I can see the entries for troubleshooting, I believe. Here is what I see:
<item name="troubleshooting">
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            <section name="Release Information" link="Release_Information.htm">
            </section>
        </item>
        <item name="printer problems">
            <section name="Printing Problems" link="Printing_Problems.htm">
            </section>
        </item>
        <item name="checkerboard">
            <section name="Checkerboard Pattern in Window" link="Checkerboard_Pattern_in_Window.htm">
            </section>
        </item>
        <item name="screen display">
            <section name="Checkerboard Pattern in Window" link="Checkerboard_Pattern_in_Window.htm">
            </section>
        </item>
        <item name="login problems">
            <section name="Login Problems" link="Login_Problems.htm">
            </section>
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        <item name="misc problems">
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        </item>
        <item name="Reporting Services Reports">
            <section name="Reporting Services Reports Problems" link="Reporting_Services_Reports_Problems.htm">
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Just installing the patches is not enough. Adobe release some smaller
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http://www.wvanweelden.eu/articles/robohelp-patches-and-updates
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3 XE "Index word 2" /* MERGEFORMAT XE "Index word 3" /* MERGEFORMAT XE "Index word 4" /* MERGEFORMAT Heading 3
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a) b)
1) Any ideas, why setting this option results in a frame showing things which are hidden in the .dot file?
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Is there any way to mark a range of sentences and associate it with a particular index entry? For a lengthy book, I don't think one can really expect the text to never change, hence regenerating the index needs to continue to work even if a bit of text was added which pushes one of the range of sentences onto the next page.
The closest thing I found was to mark the beginning of the range of sentences with an index entry for "the next 1 paragraph," but this doesn't seem to work. In my example document, http://goldfinches.org/InDesign/Failed%20Index%20Entry.indd the "Dog" entry spans two pages, but only 1 paragraph, and yet the index that is generated only has the first page in it.

Greg,
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Select the Index marker in your text and look at Reference in Index Panel. Page number will be highlighted.

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I have been working on a massive index (about 20,000 entries) on a ID CS6 document, a 700 page biological work of reference where all taxon names should be indexed. Took me several weeks. I produced the InDesign file from a Word file, but entered the index entries in InDesign (there weren't any in the Word file).
Now I found that many of my entries seem to have gone missing. They do not appear in the generated index. On the page where I entered it, the normal code (a ':' above a '^') is changed in a single ':'. I fear the last code, ':', means something like 'invalid marker', because they also appeared in another (crashed) CS6 document where they represented corrupted MS Word cross references (see "Cross references from a Word file", a still unanswered question on this forum). Normally when you select an index marker, the entry is highlighted in the Index Window. When I select the ':', nothing happens.
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A lot of the entries still found their way to the generated index, but of course I find this very worrying. Because I still have to process many author corrrections, I will have to generate the index again.
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-     Why does this problem occur, under which circumstances? Will regenerating the index result in more loss of entries?
-     Can those ':' markers corrupt my file in any way? What are they? (With the "cross reference problem", after some time I was unable to open the file again, which would with this project give me a major problem.)
-     Can I somehow 'revive' the missing entries automatically? Or is there at least a way to search for the ':' markers? (They are hardly visible.)
-     How can I prevent this from happening in the future?

Forum participants are not Adobe employees. We're users like you who volunteer to share what we know.
Thanks for the added details.
Usually someone somewhere in the forum's global audience is awake and eager to participate at almost any hour. However, "super storm" Sandy in the USA has caused massive losses of power, transportation, and communication, so responses may be delayed for some time.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
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Fritschy wrote:
Thanks for your compliments, although they don't bring me any further.
The version is 8.0.1, I always update when I'm prompted to do so by the update centre. As far as I know it is an international version.
Still, I would guess the InDesign developers could tell me something about that ':' marker. I suppose the software didn't invent it itself.

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I have figured out how to import a list of index entries to automically generate an index. Problem is, it doesn't allow me to choose the Add All feature to search the entire document for those terms. What am I missing?

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**I made a post regarding RH7 and issues with the indexing feature...since then, I have come across more issues, hence why I am doing a new post**
I have RH7 and before I was having troubles with keywords being missed from the index in the generated .chm. I would open the index in RH and then compare it to the index in the .chm file-some keywords would be missing. This was occurring with all projects converted from RH X5 to RH7.
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I have installed all three RH fixes on my laptop, and I have even deleted every single index entry and re-entered them. My last guess is, could it be that the template I use was created in another version of RH? The template file has been converted to RH7.
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Thanks!

Hi there
Screen shots? Nooo, screen shots. Where see screen shots?
Have you tried right-clicking in the Index Designer and choosing Sort?
Are the keywords possibly stored inside the topics and not the HHK? When you see them in the Index Designer, is the icon that of a page with a key instead of just a key?
Cheers... Rick
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Missing Index Entries in Printed Documentation

Hello All,
Using RoboHelp X5 to generate a Web Help File and
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bookmarks which also link to index entires.
When I generate the Printed Documentation, only index entries
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appear.
How do I generate the Printed Documentation and have all the
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Thanks

This is to confirm that if you use bookmarks (the little
white flag icons) in your topics, then drag them under an Index
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