Make Search result jump to list entry

[lguser]

Is there a way to have a Search result jump to a table entry.

We have a topic with a table of 200 error codes. When searching for UNDEFPROC the topic is found. Clicking on the search result opens the topic with the cursor at the top of topic. Then the user has to scroll through the topic to find the highlighted error code.

In RoboHelp the search result would jump to the error code in the table.

[roboHAL]

Not entirely sure if I recall correctly but offhand I believe Flare can or should be able to do anything RoboHelp can do.

With Flare you can....

Try adding an index and/or a bookmark at that point and see if that helps. If it does you would need to create an index and/or bookmark for each error code.

Another suggestion if that fails might be to educate users on the CTRL+F functionality to open the browsers find window and perform yet another albeit the same search. While that is obviously not particularly desirable it still may be a better alternative to having to scroll.

Yet another suggestion might be to create a unique topic per error code.

[roboHAL]

I have yet another suggestion....

If you're using HTML5 output, set the search abstract to a large enough value that the user can get the data right from the search results list. Now you've saved a click so the user should be even more appreciative.

[nielsf]

I've made our list of error codes into a "shrinking table" with its own search field with a bit of javascript- the table shrinks as you type stuff into the search field.
Turned out pretty nice, actually.
Feel free to contact me if you want to go that way.

-Niels

[fchan]

This is an annoying problem. I called MadCap and was told that there was a feature request. This problem occurs not only for a table as described in the original post. It happens for each search. The topic containing the search string doesn't automatically scroll to the first occurrence of the search string. So the user has to do a Ctrl-F to find the occurrence (or scroll manually to find the highlighted string). It's not user-friendly at all. I hope MadCap can fix this soon.

[Psider]

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Never mind, I see mention of the highlighted search term now.


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If it helps, my RH HTML5 multiscreen output only jumps to the text when the text highlight setting is enabled. Otherwise it just goes to the top of the topic and I have to do a Find.