How do you link to a specific place in a different topic?

[Stephanie L]

I know I'll have to add an anchor to the position, but what's the best way to do this? Flare does this automatically when it generates List Ofs, so how do I do it myself? I tried making it a linked glossary item, but that only links to the topic, not an anchor with the topic. Manually adding anchor tags to the code doesn't sound too appealing to me. Any ideas?

[crdmerge]

With the topic selected, click the Bookmark button (just below the list of files) and select a Heading or Bookmark from the list in the Select Bookmark window.

That'll give you a link to "my_topic.htm#mybookmark"


Good luck,
Leon

[mattf]

Does anybody know to link to a bookmarked place in a topic from OUTSIDE the webhelp? I can send someone a link to a topic, but I'd like to send them a link to a particular heading. Is this possible?

Thanks,
-Matt

[RamonS]

Usually it works by adding # followed by the bookmark name right after the HTML file name.

[mattf]

Thanks Ramon. I did a test and it works when I add a bookmark and precede it in the path with #.

But can this be done with headings already there? These have spaces in them, which my bookmark did not. Because people may not know what a bookmark's name is or whether one is even there, my goal would be that I can create a link to any part of a topic without having to insert a new bookmark every time, i.e., just using headings that are already visibly there.

[RamonS]

As far as I know this can only be done with bookmarks.

[mattf]

Yeah, I fiddled around and it didn't take me long to remember that a heading does not have an anchor in it, at least not ab ovo, as it were. You have to create them. Thanks, Ramon.