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36 topics found by tags: html help (chm), web help, topics, conditional compilation, build tags.
How to publish a Web Help system?
I've downloaded your HelpSmith software to create our online documentation which can be accessed by other people.
Currently we have some questions on documentation publishing:
Can we publish a generated Web Help system on our website?
How can we publish a Web Help system for use within our organization?
Is it possible to link to a specific top [...]
How do I change breadcrumb text and styles?
In our help system, we have a breadcrumb that shows the location of the current topic in the header.
What we want to do for the breadcrumb path is:
Change the style of hyperlinks (regular, hover style);
Change or disable the "<Root level>" text;
Change the delimiter from the ">" char to "|" char.
How can we do that?
How to add Related Links associated by keywords?
I have a help project in which I want to add a Related Links section at the bottom of each topic.
My questions:
How do I setup a Related Links section to display topics associated by keywords?
Is it possible to apply these links to multiple topics?
Thanks!
How to set meta tags for topics in a Web Help system?
Is it possible to set Keywords and Description meta tags for individual topics?
Can you provide instructions for this task?
What is the difference between Keywords and A-Keywords?
I've been using the HelpSmith help authoring tool to create help files and manuals for about a year.
I use Keywords to create the Index section of my help file, but wondering what is the difference between Keywords and A-Keywords?
Can you please provide an example of using A-Keywords?
Opening a specific topic in a Web Help system (by clicking on the "topic.htm" file)
I have generated a Web Help system with HelpSmith by importing topics from my Word document. HelpSmith has generated separate .HTM files for each topic in the Web Help's output folder.
But if I open one of the HTML files, it opens the Web Help system, but does not open the particular help topic. What I am doing wrong?
Interestingly, when th [...]
How to add a collapsible section? (problem with a table)
In my help file I want to put some content into a collapsible section, as implemented in one of your sample projects.
The Toggle JS script (which is available in the sample project) works fine for regular text, user instructions, etc.
Problem:
But when I try to apply the Toggle script to the annotation tables which are generated below a screens [...]
Compiled help system does not display the topic titles?
When I compile my help project as a CHM file or Web Help system, it works fine, but when opening any topic, it does not display the topic's title.
What I am doing wrong?
The Search function in my CHM help file does not work
I have compiled a help project as a CHM help file, but when I enter a keyword on the Search tab, it does not find any topics in the help file despite the topics actually contain text that matches the keyword.
So my question is:
How do I enable the search function in my CHM file?
How do I produce separate manuals from the main help file?
I'm writing a help file for our software product, which consists of several applications (or sub-products).
We have a HelpSmith help project that includes topics for all the included applications, but I also want to produce separate help files for each of the sub-products.
I read your manual on the conditional compilation capabilities (Build Ta [...]