How to open external topic from toolbar button?

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SusanNicholson
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How to open external topic from toolbar button?

Post by SusanNicholson »

Hi,

I have an aspx page that sits outside of the my WebHelp root directory, and I need to open it from a toolbar icon and TOC entry, but cannot get the link to resolve.

My help sits on: Site/Platform/HelpFiles/Build/Lang/Default.htm.

The aspx page sits on: Site/Platform/Page.aspx.

I cannot use a fixed path, as the 'Platform', 'Build' and 'Lang' directories change.

Can anyone assist?

Thanks,
Susan
JasonSTI
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Re: How to open external topic from toolbar button?

Post by JasonSTI »

We have a couple toolbar buttons like that. What we chose to do was have a topic in the project which contains only a "jump" to that external topic. We open ours in another window and returns the current window to the calling topic, but you could probably open it directly. Since you are using a relative path, you would need to change the path to be relative. You could also use Javascript to find the current path (document.location) and use a substring to strip the /HelpFiles/Build/Lang folders, then insert it as a full path rather than a relative one.

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<head>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            <!--
	    function onw()
	    {
		window.open("http://www.website.com","_blank");
	    }
	//-->
        </script>
    </head>
    <body onload="onw();history.back()">
    </body>
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