TOC Question

In my TOC I have a number of topics that are common to all
books in the TOC; for example an orientation topic. When the common
topic is clicked on in one book it opens the page correctly, but it
also opens the first book in the TOC that has a link to that page
and places the user in that book instead of the one they were in.
It doesn't open any book with that topic page between the first
occurrence and the book the user is in. I created the TOC by
dragging and dropping the topics into the TOC books.
I am using RH7 and IE 6.0
Thanks for any help

Hi again
Creating a redirect does involve a smidgeon of HTML editing
behind the scenes. But I compare it to changing the air filter on
your car. Even someone not versed in mechanics can usually pull it
off.
Here is what you do. Visit the scary HTML code in RoboHelp.
Near the top should be a list of tags that begin with code
that looks like this:
<meta.
Somewhere in this list of tags you insert one that looks like
this:
<meta HTTP-EQUIV=refresh
CONTENT="0;URL=SomeFolder/SomePage.HTM">
Just change the SomeFolder/SomePage.HTM to reflect the path
you need. If you like, just create a regular hyperlink on the page
that points to the page you want. Then edit the link and copy what
you see there.
Yes, you will need a separate redirect page for each TOC node
you wish to point to the topic. The trick here is that you never
directly link to the topic from the TOC. You always use the
redirects. This prevents the TOC from synchronizing to the wrong
section. And you always get the same topic to appear! This way it
only has to exist in your project once.
If you are using RoboHelp 7, I suppose you might accomplish
the same effect without using redirects by creating the topic
content inside a snippet. Then create multiple topics that each use
the snippet.
Cheers... Rick

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