Merged CHM and Context Sensitive Help

[dragoncity2222]

Hi,
I'm having a problem with context sensitive help in my merged CHMs.

I can get it to work, but the slave CHMs open in their own window, rather than the help opening in the master CHM and showing the salve topic in there.

I used to use AuthorIT, and the setup had a redirect.xhtm file to force this to work. Only problem is that when I try to reference this file in the alias, Flare doesn't recognise the format and doesn't apply the CSH.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Has anyone got merged CSH to work? And how???

Thanks,

Nicola

[Pete Lees]

Hi, Nicola,

Is this the same redirect.xhtm file that is described on the Helpware site? In that case, I don't believe you need to give the file a ".xhtm" extension; ".htm" should be fine.

The idea of using the ".xhtm" extension is to prevent the redirector topic from appearing in the results when the user conducts a search. (Only source files whose names contain the characters ".h" are parsed for search information by the help compiler.) However, the redirector topic has no searchable content except for the <title> element, which you can safely omit, so there's no good reason to add the ".xhtm" extension to the file name.

Pete

[dragoncity2222]

Hi Pete,

That's a great idea. However, thanks to Flare technical support (and some other email off the net) I've found a differnt way of doing it.
Rather than use a redirect file, in the alias file of the master chm you reference first the master chm, then the slave:

<Map Name="Map_Name" Link="ms-its:Master.chm::/Slave.chm::/Folder/Topic.htm" />

This has to be done in Notepad, (I use Notepad++), but so far appears to be working well.

Nicola

[KevinDAmery]

If you haven't already, I'd put in a feature request that Flare allow you to do this in its own UI (using a checkbox option or the like). You can add feature requests here:

https://www.madcapsoftware.com/bugs/submit.aspx