Zoom Search + Highlight, Exclude Bookmarks
Hi,
I've used Zoom Search for about 2 years with few Homesite HTML projects and am now incorporating Zoom Search into a Robohelp project. So far, so good.
I've followed Peter's suggestions, tweaked for my needs. Again, so far, so goo. I added the highlighting option (jump to match and highlight search words). It works as expected, but I'm having an issue that it's highlighting bookmarks, when the search terms matches a word in the bookmark. This isn't ideal, and it causes a big issue when the matched search word is in the bookmark and at the bottom of the page. The "jump" in this case stops at the top of the page because the bookmark is the first occurrence of the word. Technically, this is correct, but from a user's perspective, it's not so great.
To exclude portions of the page from being indexed by Zoom one uses the <!--ZOOMSTOP--> and <!--ZOOMRESTART--> tags, which works as expected with RoboHelp. My issue is that the bookmark code does not appear in the html file, so I can't even exclude it. Any suggestions?
I was going to post this in Zoom's forum, but I have a feeling they'll tell me to ck in with Robohelp.
thanks in advance........
--j
Is there a way to edit the original post?
I run the Zoom indexer on the published files.
I looked at the published .htm file and I found something, I think, related to breadcrumbs, but I have no idea how I could configure Zoom to skip it, other than add the ZOOMSTOP/RESTART comments to this file....which will be an impossible task given the # of files and the time required.
here are the lines in my published .htm file:
<!--
if (window.gbWhTopic)
var strUrl = document.location.href;
var bc = 0;
var n = strUrl.toLowerCase().indexOf("bc-");
if(n != -1)
document.location.href = strUrl.substring(0, n);
bc = strUrl.substring(n+3);
if (window.addTocInfo)
addTocInfo("Configuration [user]\nAttribute Mapping");
addButton("show",BTN_TEXT,"Show","","","","",0,0,"","","");
if (window.writeBtnStyle)
writeBtnStyle();
if (window.writeIntopicBar)
writeIntopicBar(1);
document.write("<p style=\"text-align:right\"> ");
AddMasterBreadcrumbs("../ugtest_zoom.htm", "", "|", "Home", "../frontpages/home.htm");
document.write("<a href=\"attrmap.htm\">Configuration [user]<\/a> | Attribute Mapping <\/p>");
if (window.setRelStartPage)
setRelStartPage("../ugtest_zoom.htm");
autoSync(1);
sendSyncInfo();
sendAveInfoOut();
else
if (window.gbIE4)
document.location.reload();
//-->
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