Adding a target to Jump Button URL

sarrants · Post by **sarrants** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:15 am

Is it possible to add a target="_blank" to the URL for a Jump Button? We'd like that button to open to our support page in a new browser, and not in the HTML Help window.

Pete Lees · Post by **Pete Lees** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:57 am

Hi, Steve,

You can do this by making the target of the Jump button a topic file like the one below.

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<html>
<body onLoad="hhctrl.Click();history.back()">

<object id="hhctrl" classid="clsid:adb880a6-d8ff-11cf-9377-00aa003b7a11">
    <param name="Command" value="ShortCut" />
    <param name="Item1" value=",http://www.YourSupportSite.com," />
</object>

</body>
</html>

Clicking the Jump button opens this topic file and immediately fires the ShortCut control, which opens the specified Web site in the user's default browser. The history.back function causes the topic that the user was previously viewing to be returned to.

The only downside I can see to this technique is that, because it's using the ShortCut command of the HTML Help ActiveX control, it doesn't work when the help file is stored on a network drive. This is because of the security restrictions described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323180/en-us

There's no real workaround to this, unfortunately.

Pete

sarrants · Post by **sarrants** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:42 am

Thanks Pete. Looks like it might be a bit more work than I'd thought!

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