Expanding and selecting left side treeview item

[zulmkodr]

Hi, We have created a help document using MadCap Flare for our desktop application in vb.net. We have Default.htm and Default_CSH.htm pages in the documentation folder. From our vb.net application, when clicking on a link, we have to open specific topic in the web page. For now, all we have been able to do is to just open Default.htm or Default_CSH.htm in a browser. Alternative way is to open web page with the link we get when we click in specific topic in the left side treeview menu in Default.htm page. But we need to expand the left side treeview menu as well and select the specific topic for the chapter we are opening which we are able to do currently. Are there any specific parameters we need to pass as a part of the url ? Or, is there any javascript/jquery way to accomplish the same?

[BedfordWriter]

That partly depends on what kind of help you're creating. Is it DotNet, HTML, HTML5, CHM?
It also depends on how you want to go about it. With some outputs, you could use the Madcap embedded viewer and call that. Or you could generate a url that includes the CSH ID value. Or, yeah, there are options for VB and JavaScript and PHP and ...

I'd start here, then go looking for examples.
http://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare201 ... ut-CSH.htm
There are also a few semi-relevant notes in the knowledge base:
http://kb.madcapsoftware.com/Content/Fl ... ources.htm