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You do that with a topic link. On the left side of the dialog is a box where you can select the file you want to link to. It is preset with "Current" but you can click on the box to open another file.

Hi Ross, if you can manage to have the explanation on a single line you can use a text file to replace variables. See More Advanced Procedures > Command line options > Redefining variables how to build your text file and the command line option V how to use it. Another way can be to create a templat...

This will not be possible. The reason is that the contents of the variable is known only at compile time. You can set a variable using the command line of H&M and text files. Look in the help under More Advanced Procedures > Command line options > .INI and batch files espacially the V switch how...

This is done by conditional output. Read More Advanced Procedures > Conditions and Customized Output > Using conditional output in the help of H&M. It explains how you can have text or complete topics included or excluded in the output.

When users click on a master keyword in the index I'd like to display a dialog telling them to click on a child keyword instead. (H&M's Help employs this kindness.) This is a built in functionality of the HTML Help Viewer. I'm compiling to browser-based Help. If you go to the Online Help Of H&a...

Dan, it seems that your template has an error since I get JavaScript errors onthe page you are linking to. Google will find for "SBB-Gleis" the following page: http://www.bahn.hersacher.de/splinekatalog/spkat_gl_off_sbb_gleis.htm . This link will be redirected through the JavaScript code o...

Your BBH will be perfectly indexed by Google and other search engines. I tested this for this post again. Not often used words like "Splinemanager" are ranging on the first page although there are a lot of other websites with this word. Another one was "SBB-Gleis" here I'm positi...

For HTML Help you can activate this under Project Properties>>Help Windows>>HTML Help Options. Mark the checkbox "Add a FAVORITE Tab to the navigation panel".

In this topic is a description of the limitations.

Sonia, another thing are context numbers or the names of the pages that do not match. You must get the information from the programmers which context numbers or page names they use for the not working link. Context numbers and the page name are enterd in the Topic Options tab. Since other links work...

You can analyze the whole H&M Help in source. It is installed with H&M and is located under Samples>>HelpandManual4 or search for helpman.hmx.

Dear Tim, I would also like to organize the ouput of BBH into folders. I have organized the H&M projects as modular projects. In one case I have now about 1100 files and most of them are images. The projects are in one folder and the images are organized in subfolders. I expect at least 3500 fil...

Dear apolon, you must use unique topic IDs in modular help projects when compiling to CHM/HTML output. I prefer to use a mnemonic as an prefix. You can set this prefix in the "Project Properties>>Common Properties>>Topic IDs & Help context" page. Setting this prefix is the first thing ...

The XML Source tab is only avaliable in the professional version. The only way I can think is that you have used H&M in evaluation mode. After activating H&M with the serial number for the standard version the XML Source tab is gone. If you have purchased the professional version than you ha...

Hi Vadim, you have to make two sections in the TOC like 1 Working Procedures 1.1.1. getting up, 1.1.2. washing up, 1.1.3. having breakfast, 2 Reference 2.1.1 Householding processes 2.1.1.1. 2.1.1.2. 2.2.1. Office jobs Create the topic in the Invisible topics part and embed the topic in the two place...