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Re: RH X5: how to hyperlink to Search tab of NavPane view from a CSH popup?

Subject: Re: RH X5: how to hyperlink to Search tab of NavPane view from a CSH popup?
From: "Edgar D' Souza" <edgar -dot- b -dot- dsouza -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "Rick Stone" <rstone75 -at- kc -dot- rr -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 09:57:56 +0530

Rick, **thank you!!** You're a life-saver! :-)
That was really really useful knowledge - and it works almost exactly
how your help says it should.
I spent some more time googling for JavaScript to maximize the entire
browser window (after it opened the main frameset) - but this time I
found some quite quickly.
So now, thanks to your help, I have my "Click here to Search for more
help" link working very nicely - not only does it open the full
nav-pane view to the Search tab, it also springs the window to
full-screen, which was one minor irritant that remained.

Your CHM file is now mandated reading for my colleague who's actually
doing the RH project.

Thanks!
Ed.

On 1/31/07, Rick Stone <rstone75 -at- kc -dot- rr -dot- com> wrote:

Hi Ed

You might want to check out a free resource I offer up. It's called the
"Skinny on Skins" and you may download a copy by visiting the link below:

http://www.robowizard.com/RoboWizard/NewProject.htm#Downloads/Skinny_on_Skins.htm

Inside is a topic titled "Opening WebHelp with different Navigation panes
loaded" that you may find useful in this case.

Hopefully this helps... Rick :)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Edgar D' Souza" <edgar -dot- b -dot- dsouza -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 2:14 AM
Subject: RH X5: how to hyperlink to Search tab of NavPane view from a CSH
popup?


> Hi all,
>
> We're using RoboHelp X5 to do WebHelp. We have some of our topics
> available as context-sensitive help, invoked from within the (web)
> application. These pop up in a narrow window, without the WebHelp
> navigation pane+toolbar.
>
> We would like to add Search functionality to the c-s help popups.
> However, since that would become rather ugly for the user to navigate,
> we're hoping that we can expand the same window (or open a new window)
> to display the entire navigation pane, *with the Search tab already
> selected*. We have already enabled Search in the full navigation-pane
> view, and it's working OK.
>
> What we would like to do is add some standard text at the bottom of
> each of the popups, something like, "If the content above didn't help
> you, click *here* to search for other topics." The "here" in this
> hypothetical text would be a hyperlink that opens the full nav-pane
> view with the Search tab already selected.
>
> The "Show" link at the top of our c-s help popups does allow the user
> to obtain the full navigation-pane-plus-topic view in the same window
> - but not the Search tab. Another possibility might be to make the
> default view the Search tab instead of the Contents tab (I don't even
> know if that's possible!) but we would like to keep the Contents tab
> the default since users can open Help in a non-context-sensitive
> browse manner, and this would be a better place for them to start.
>
> Despite searching through RH's help and Googling for quite a while, as
> well as trying to make our own hyperlink, we haven't gotten anywhere
> on this. If you have done something like this, or have any ideas on
> how to accomplish it, please do post... or if you know that what we're
> trying to do isn't possible, please do let me know!
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ed.





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