Linking projects: issues with index, See Also and searching

[Claire]

Hi,

We have a master project and several slave projects and are having issues with indexes not linking on compilation,
See Also (concept links) not working and search returning no results, and was wondering if anyone would be able to help - see details below.

1. Indexes not linking.
When we build the slave projects they have complete indexes yet when we build the master project the slave project indexes have not been linked. Upon advice, We tried setting all skins to have binary indexes (for all projects) and rebuilt each of the projects individually, finishing with the master project, but this did not work.
All slave projects are listed under [MERGE FILES] in the _Temp.hhp file for the master project.

2. When we click on a See Also concept link the following error is returned:

'Selection is not associated with any topics. Please try another selection'
OK

This is the same for the slave and the master projects.

3. Searching for valid topics returns no results - 'no topics found' message is displayed. This is the same for the slave and the master projects.

The TOC appears to be ok, displaying for the slave and master projects.

All worked ok in version 3.1 yet we are now using version 4.2 - would this have any bearing?

Also, previously projects were created and build by a different user - would this have any bearing?

Any help/advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

[Pete Lees]

Hi, Claire,

I'd recommend that you run MJ's Help Diagnostics, which is available from here:

http://helpware.net/downloads/index.htm#MJs

This utility checks the status of all the HTML Help run-time and compiler components on your computer, and corrects any errors that it finds.

It sounds like one or more compiler components is incorrectly registered on your computer. If this is the case, MJ's Help Diagnostics should resolve the issue.

Pete