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Hi Quadra,

Here's what I did: Under the WebHelp target's Advanced tab, I set the Master Page to Default.

Then, I made 4 different master pages:
A general one with breadcrumbs and a footer for most pages,
one without those for topics to be used only as topic-popups,
one for topics with mini ...

Yep, that's what I meant Lisa. I did make a separate master page for topic popups sans breadcrumbs and footers, and with size restrictions, which helped.

Ooh, I didn't know I could do that! I will give that a try.

Thanks Lisa, you have confirmed what I was thinking I'd need to do. It's a balance between saving time now, and achieving maintainability going forward I think.

I actually made two projects. I have a "rough import" project where I pulled in all the source files, and an actual project where I'm ...

Interesting information on the callouts!

I solved this a different way in our app - I image-mapped the screencapture and put the label in the screen tip, and a description in a topic pop-up. I wish there were the option of putting a text pop-up in a mapped image.

Lisa, is there an official list of features that do not work when MOTW is enabled? I recall that it makes some options unavailable when it's used but I can't remember which ones.

The toolbar options are in the Skin editor.
Under Project Explorer>Skins, open your skin.
Find the WebHelp Toolbar tab on the left-hand list.
Check the Enable Custom Layout box.
Then, you can move items between the Available and Selected panes, and re-arrange them within the Selected pane ...

Hi all,

I'm trying to create a new WebHelp file out of a batch of source files for an HTML Help. The source files were created in 2001 and last updated in 2004; I do not know what tools were used to make them. I did import them, but looking under the hood at the code I see all sorts of unfamilar ...

I too would love to see some good documentation on skin icons. We created a custom set, and had a time of it figuring out where they are pulled from. And, it seemed that all the default icons and every other icon we test-drove were pulled into the output to become unneeded baggage.

I think a ...

Hello Knowlegable Madcappers,

Our Help file goes with a programming application resident on the user's machine. In the Help we have links to PDFs and also to source code listings that are bundled with the application. All links to these files are set to open in a new window.

With IE7, clicking on ...

Okay, I'm beginning to get the picture now. Thank you Lisa, I have several things to try out.
-Steph

Hi Lisa,

That's what I was thinking of, #2 in my original post. And you are right, it will help when updating the system and adding topics, which will be an issue for us in about a year.

In my OP, I asked a few questions about this approach: could the CSH link be to a topic popup, so it would not ...

Not sure what you mean by "keyword" in this context: ...
Sorry about that, I didn't mean a Flare keyword. Our applications are programming environments, and the keywords are reserved words in the programming languages. The user will be able to highlight a keyword in the text editor where programs ...

Hi there,

I am going to be implementing CSH for the first time soon, in one new and one existing project. In each of our applications, a given keyword might have two or even three different associated topics, depending on how it is being used. So, when a person clicks on the keyword to get CSH, a ...

I had a similar struggle with the MiniTOC link content. There, it turns out that the text in the links could be formatted with the p.MiniTOC# styles. However, in the built topics after a mini-TOC link was visited it reverted to some type of a tag properties and I couldnt' get it to behave without ...

Oh yeah, this is for WebHelp output only at this point. I won't be single-sourcing with this material for more than a year most likely. I've been doing layout entirely in Word and outputting to Acrobat PDF for years, and I'm looking forward to relegating Word to content authoring at most. But I'm ...

Thanks for coming to my aid yet again Lisa.

Well drat. I don't want all the links throughout my project to be 90%, just these. The font size is not set under any of my a tag pseudoclasses. So does that mean they are taking the body tag size after being visited? Is it possible to put the proxy in a ...

Hi there,
This is the last problem I have to solve before I can publish (I hope). I'm using the Mini-TOC proxies in select master pages. I changed the p.MiniTOC style to be blue and underlined so it looks like a link (before they were showing up as black with no line). Now, if the link is visited ...

Wow, that's some fancy ruler work! Thanks for the link Andrew.
For this case, I did just add a border to the div tag holding the content directly below, since it's just a one-time home page usage. But I will keep this new info in mind for future use!

Hi All,

I'm adding a ruler, the hr tag, to a topic. I tried making a class for that tag to change the color, but it is not showing up in the preview or output (Webhelp).

I'm not familiar with this tag. The Show Assorted Relevant Properties gave me the Border attributes to work with, so I set the ...

Hi all,

I've been using cross-references to make links to topics where that topics first heading is the text I want in the paragraph where the link originates. Sometimes I need the link to say, and go to, a heading farther down in a topic. I have been just typing in the text and using a hyperlink ...

Nope, this is not print content, just a WebHelp at this point. I will be single-sourcing in the future though, and I'm trying to think ahead as I work on this project. (And I'm looking forward to taking a class some day too.)

Dave, that's a great idea for the future. But ironically my patched ...

Thanks! Yep, I'm using cross-references. I'm still curious as to the purpose of Level 0 though!

Hi all,

I'm putting the mini-TOC proxy on the Welcome page of my Help file. It is not on its own level in the TOC, but there are several topics at the same level. I was hoping that using the Mini-TOC with Level set to O would give me a list of the topics at the same level, but instead it only gives ...

Wow! And then I was able to add another image with a transparent background, in a P tag within the DIV, so I have three layers of graphics, with text appearing on top of the first two. Pretty neat!

Question: the MadCap Help told me to set the background image for a topic in a body tag class. This ...