I can't find the topic now, but I know that there is a way to apply two different master pages to different topics in the WebHelp output. Can someobdy point me in the right direction?
I want to have a first landing page that DOESN'T have the MasterPage applied. Then I want to apply the MasterPage to all other topics in my help system.
Thanks.
Apply different MasterPage to some topics
Re: Apply different MasterPage to some topics
See this KB article --> http://kb.madcapsoftware.com/default_CSH.htm#FMP1001F
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Re: Apply different MasterPage to some topics
Short version of the steps is:
1) Create your master pages
2) In the stylesheet create a class in the HTML tag for the appropriate master pages
3) In the class, tell it to reference the master page
4) For each topic, you can select the class in the topic properties, which tells it to use the master page associated with the class
1) Create your master pages
2) In the stylesheet create a class in the HTML tag for the appropriate master pages
3) In the class, tell it to reference the master page
4) For each topic, you can select the class in the topic properties, which tells it to use the master page associated with the class
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Re: Apply different MasterPage to some topics
That is quite backwards as there are generally way more topics that would need the MasterPage than not. So now one has to apply the setting to 4023 out of 4024 topics when telling Flare not to use it for one topic would be much easier. Smells like feature request.
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Re: Apply different MasterPage to some topics
Presumably you could also specify a master page for the base HTML tag as well, although I haven't tried it. For my purposes it wasn't appropriate because I was using this method to apply a banner to each topic telling users which section of the application the topic pertained to.RamonS wrote:That is quite backwards as there are generally way more topics that would need the MasterPage than not. So now one has to apply the setting to 4023 out of 4024 topics when telling Flare not to use it for one topic would be much easier. Smells like feature request.
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Re: Apply different MasterPage to some topics
No, you don't. My base <html> tag points to the main topic masterpage, so by default, all of my topics will use the main topic masterpage. I have two custom <html> classes. One is for the "intro" page that doesn't have breadcrumbs but has a copyright DIV at the bottom, and one is called "nonTopic" that also doesn't have breadcrumbs but doesn't include the copyright DIV. The two topics that don't use the topic masterpage I just applied the appropriate custom class to the html tag, same way I'd apply a custom class to a paragraph.RamonS wrote:That is quite backwards as there are generally way more topics that would need the MasterPage than not. So now one has to apply the setting to 4023 out of 4024 topics when telling Flare not to use it for one topic would be much easier. Smells like feature request.
So in Kevin's summation, step 4 only needs to be done for the two non-standard topic pages.
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