Remote URLs for See Also Keyword Topics

I am having difficulty entering a remote URL as a topic
destination for a See Also Keyword. With the appropriate See Also
Keyword selected, I click the New Keyword Topic icon. One of the
available dropdown options for the Keyword Topic Destination is
"Remote URLs." However, when that is selected, the "Link To" field
at the bottom of the form is unavailable.
I also used the Find Topic feature to attempt a search for
topics in a separate help project, and the only returns provided by
RoboHelp were for topics that existed in the currently open
project.
Is there some setup option or something I'm missing?

Welcome to our community, S_Reynolds
One option you would have at your beckon call would be to
create simple redirect topics that point to the remote URLs. Then
link those to the See Also keywords.
Cheers... Rick

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I am using RoboHelp HTML X5.0.2. I have a project that I at
some point converted from WinHelp and have been working with for
many years.
Yesterday I should work with the See Also-keywords in the
project, but discovered that the keyword list was empty. When I
open the topic properties, I can see the See Also keyword(s)
connected to that topic. I can also see the list of keywords when I
open the properties of the See Also design-time control.
I tried adding a new keyword to a topic, and that keyword
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I renamed and opened the project file in Access, and could
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idea what has happened here, or what I can do to get my keywords
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Rannveig Østevik

I was able to solve the problem by manually editing the
rhakeyword.apj file. I hadn't so many See Also-keyword, so it was
possible to add them there. All links to the keywords were restored
when I added the keywords to this file.
Before that I tried rebuilding the CPD-file, but that didn't
add the keywords to the See Also tab. If I tried to add the
keywords manually in the RoboHelp UI, I got an error messag that
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Regards,
Rannveig Østevik

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Hi all.
I have a See Also keyword that is not showing up in the See
Also Pod. I know I have previously created it but it does not show
up.
If I try to create it again, RoboHelp prevents me from doing
so indicating that it already exists. When I open a See Also button
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there.
The big problem is that I have no way of adding topics to the
keyword.

Hi there
Perhaps try closing the project, deleting the CPD file and
re-opening the project. See if those steps resurrect the keyword.
If not, we may need more invasive measures. But that's the easiest
approach to begin with.
Cheers... Rick

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Rather than cobbling together the individual parts of the URL, create a development app with social sharing enabled and at least one article set to free. When you share the article of the published folio, you'll see your web viewer URL.

Multiple issues with See Also controls when importing topics (RoboHelp 9)

I was wondering if anyone has found workarounds to a very flaky area of RoboHelp...
Suppose you create several topics A, B, C and D, each with a See Also control in it. Let's suppose all the topics are assigned to the same See Also keyword, say 'Alphabet'. At a later date you create a new project, and need to import your old topics. The following problems arise:
1) When the topics are imported, RoboHelp does not recreate the 'Alphabet' See Also keyword in the See Also pod. However, the See Also functionality works (sort of) when the project is built. It is not possible to manually add the 'Alphabet' keyword in the See Also pod, because RoboHelp tells you it already exists! The result is an invisible 'Alphabet' See Also keyword, to which you cannot add further topics. As a workaround, I found it is essential to manually add the 'Alphabet' See Also keyword BEFORE importing the topics, and RoboHelp will then correctly assign A, B, C and D to it. However, this can be very awkward if you have hundreds of topics to import and are not sure what See Also keywords the topics reference.
2) When the topics are imported and the project is built, the See Also control does not work as expected. In RoboHelp, right-clicking the See Also control and choosing See Also [] Properties... reveals that the options you previously set, such as 'Popup menu' or "If no topics are associated with any of the See Also keywords..." have been lost! So all those nasty Topics Found dialogs return when you build the help (instead of popups). If you have a See Also control placed in every topic for consistency, it will never grey out if the topic doesn't belong to any See Also keywords.
3) When the topics are imported and the project is built, the current topic's name appears in its own list of See Also topics, i.e. it self-references. So for example, if you are viewing topic A and click the See Also link, topics A, B, C and D are listed, instead of just B, C and D. However, when you create new See Also keywords in RoboHelp, assign topics, and build the help, they work correctly and do not show the calling topic's name.
I spent hours analysing the HTML code of files I am importing, and the code of brand new topics created in RoboHelp, and I can see no obvious differences apart from some -1/0/1 flags in the green Metadata section preceding the SeeAlso code. I even tried changing these flags in my import files to exactly match the flags of new topics that RoboHelp just built, but when importing they still don't work. Clearly RoboHelp stores crucial See Also information elsewhere in the project, but does not make this reliably transportable by adding it to the HTM files that it builds, despite the huge Metadata comment block.
Adobe needs to put a lot of work into making it possible to cleanly re-use files as content re-use is a very common, and often critical, requirement.

Hi there
After reading your post, I come away being unsure about your goal. Is the goal here to simply advise others as to what they may encounter using the See Also functionality? Or is your goal to advise Adobe about what you would like to see changed?
If your goal is to advise Adobe about what you would like to see changed, you need to visit the Wish Form at www.adobe.com/go/wish and file an official request. Otherwise, it just gives you a nice warm glow that you had your say here. But it won't have much of any effect on the product.
As far as any workarounds, I might suggest the following. You seem to be regularly creating a new projects and importing content. And if that's the case, I might suggest you create a template project that would already have these things in place so that as you add content, the expected keywords and links and whatnot are already in place. My thought is that this action would ease much of the frustration you are facing.
Cheers... Rick

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Although I have read the help file, I must be missing
something. I am trying to add see also groupings for my topic. So
far I have created the see also control, I have added a see also
text? to the topic properties tab but I have been unable to
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particular topic.
I know i have had a fair number of questions, I am new to
this software after a year or two away without ever having has much
experience to begin with. I appreciate your patience and thank you
in advance for your help.

Hi all
Perhaps I might offer some insight here. I see that Colum
correctly indicated the basic steps, but there seems to be a bit of
confusion. I think I may know why.
Here are my own basic steps.
1. Create See Also keywords
2. Assign them to topics
3. Insert See Also controls that point to the keywords
Here is where you are probably confused. How exactly to
define and assign the See Also keywords. You should be doing this
using the Index designer. So click the Index tab (hoping here you
are using version 6 or older-please advise if you are using 7, as
the process may be a tad different and need further explanation)
From the Index tab, look at the top of the Index designer and
you see a drop-down that you click and have two choices. Index and
See Also. If you choose See Also, the main part of the Index
designer changes. Once there, you add See Also keywords. You then
display the Topic list on the right side and drag desired topics
from the list on the right, into the Topics For area at the bottom
of the See Also designer.
After you do this, your See Also control insertion should be
pretty straightforward.
Hopefully this helps... Rick

Almost There - See Also

Believe me. I have looked at help. Its not that......
helpful, sometimes.
Let me tell you what I have:
1. In the topic properties on the See Also tab I have added
the term 'white listing'
( as in email)
2. Using the See Also "tool" (alternate to index) I have
added text white listing and dragged two topics to the Topics for:
area, lets say the topics are Blocking Senders and Spam Management
3. I have added a see also control to the topic referred to
in #1 above
4. In the properties of the See Also on the Link Options tab
I have selected Button, Popup menu and default for the window and
frame
5. On the See Also tab of the See Also properties there are
three items in the See Also keywords in project, they are black
list, linking and white listing. I have added white listing to the
See Also keywords control area.
After generating the layout, which is in the webhelp format I
do see the button but when clicked it jumps automatically to the
Spam Management topic. It does not list Blocking Senders and Spam
Management as I expected, which are the related topics.
Can you provide instruction? Thanks in advance.
BTW, just wondering, are most of the forum folks technical
writers by trade or developers????
Dave

Hi Dave
One thing that is way cool is that the See Also control has
intelligence. Assume you have three topics assigned. You are
viewing one of the three. The popup menu will only list the other
two, because the topic being displayed really doesn't need to be
there. After all, you are in the topic!
As you only have two topics assigned, the control is also
exhibiting more intelligence in just linking the user over to the
other topic as opposed to presenting a popup, then forcing them to
click a second time to visit the only other topic.
Hopefully this helps... Rick

Quick way to apply 'see also' or 'in this section' ??

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Hi all,
I'm wanting to add a See Also/Related Topics/In this Section area to my topics and am looking for a way to do it quickly and automatically.
Does RH provide any quick mechanism to add these to topics, say in the bottom on the page.
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thanks.
Nick

Hi Nick
If you create a new project in RoboHelp 8, choose the Project Template type of Knowledge Base.
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Cheers... Rick
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Hi, I am just learning to use RoboHelp (RH HTML 10), as I have to update the existing Help for a software made by my company.
The problem is that some of the topics have wrong See also... links.
For example, in the attached picture (https://workspaces.acrobat.com/?d=0LrVwK4FeH8RwZC3P*Qfkg) the topic in the box should not be linked to my topic.
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