Linking an empty topic to a subtopic
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Linking an empty topic to a subtopic
On several topics in a help file, I started primary topics where the information doesn't begin until the subtopics. I'm wondering if there's a way to allow the user to click the main topic and have it jump to the sub-topic in the HTML version. Is there a way to have the topic automatically jump to the first subtopic?
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Re: Linking an empty topic to a subtopic
Hi D,
Your screenshot shows HTML Help, i.e. a Microsoft CHM file in the CHM viewer. That old viewer cannot do what you ask for here, and that is one of the reasons you should generally consider these "chapters without text" to be deprecated. This is not a restriction in Help & Manual; it can't force the Microsoft viewer to do something that it can't do.
Generally speaking, chapter without text nodes are not good for navigation because of this. The user clicks on them and nothing happens -- the topic display remains as it was before, and that looks like an error. In addition to this they are not allowed at all in eBooks (Kindle and ePub/iBooks eBooks).
Your screenshot shows HTML Help, i.e. a Microsoft CHM file in the CHM viewer. That old viewer cannot do what you ask for here, and that is one of the reasons you should generally consider these "chapters without text" to be deprecated. This is not a restriction in Help & Manual; it can't force the Microsoft viewer to do something that it can't do.
Generally speaking, chapter without text nodes are not good for navigation because of this. The user clicks on them and nothing happens -- the topic display remains as it was before, and that looks like an error. In addition to this they are not allowed at all in eBooks (Kindle and ePub/iBooks eBooks).
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Tim (EC Software Documentation & User Support)
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Tim (EC Software Documentation & User Support)
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Re: Linking an empty topic to a subtopic
All right, good to know. Thanks Tim.