Newbie - Linking to a specific topic

Hello,
I just got RoboHelp 7 today and a bit lost. Here is my
issue. I'm an App Dev Project manager. I came onto a project that
has an application that links to a RoboHelp project. All links
within the application send the user to the default.htm. Which is
nice because you have the search tool and the left side navigation
pane. However, inside of our application we have help links that
appear to be very specific to a topic, yet when you click on the
link you get the default page. We can create links right to a
specific htm page from our application, but when we do that we only
get the topic and none of the nice features that Robo help adds,
like the navigation pane. What I'd like to do, is create a link
that takes a user to the help files with the appearance that you
get when you go to the default page, but instead of sending them to
the default page, send them to a specific help file.
Can anyone get me pointed in the right direction? Should we
use bookmarks in Robohelp? If so, how do we link to them.
Thank you so much (in advance)!

This isn't working for me. The URL of the base help page is:
file:///C:/makana/kahuna/help/Motivator/!SSL!/WebHelp/Motivator.htm
and in trying to follow the instructions in the web article,
I changed it to:
file:///C:/makana/kahuna/help/Motivator/!SSL!/WebHelp/Motivator.htm?#path/Alignment_Best_ Practices.htm
where Alignment_Best_Practices.htm is one of the other pages
in the !SSL!/WebHelp folder. This makes a File Not Found error. Am
I doing something wrong? Thanks.

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If I want to link to a specific topic within an application,
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