Keywords not imported from .chm

[Nadia Gaganova]

Hello!
Just started migrating our help project (originally created with FrontPage and HTML Help) to H&M 7. There are several snags I'm trying to straighten out, but the one I've finally given up on is importing keywords from a .chm file.
Our project used automatically-populated index from <object> tag on each page. But it seems that the import procedure only recognizes the keywords which were added to the .hhk file manually (I've checked that this one works with another smaller project which has a manually-created index).

Is there any hope to import the keywords anyway?

[Tim Green]

Hi Nadia,

Keywords should normally import from CHM files, along with everything else. I've asked our CHM specialist from our developer team to comment on this. Depending on what he says, I may also ask you to send me an example of a CHM you are having trouble with.

[Nadia Gaganova]

Hey Tim,
looking forward to your reply.
Meanwhile, I've checked it even more specifically: if the project has both automatically and manually added keywords, only the manual are imported.

[Alexander Halser]

Hi Nadia,

This is correct, Help+Manual imports the internal HHK file from the CHM (this is the keyword index file). The binary index of a CHM file (like those indexes built automatically from keywords found in HTML topic files) is not decompiled. If you have a mix of a dedicated index specified by a HHK file and complementary keywords from HTML topics, only the dedicated index is imported. This is intentional, because importing the keywords from HTML pages as well would in most cases result in duplicate, redudant keywords. (The dedicated keyword index in a CHM file has 2 levels and may point to anchors as well, while the same keywords typically occur in the HTML topic, too. But the <meta name="keywords" ...> tag lists them on one level only.)

[Nadia Gaganova]

If you have a mix of a dedicated index specified by a HHK file and complementary keywords from HTML topics, only the dedicated index is imported.

No, actually we don't, we only have keywords from HTML. So, is recreating the index manually in our H&M project the only option? That's really too bad, for the project which has over a thousand pages with several keywords each.

[Alexander Halser]

Hi Nadia,

Let me see what we can do about it... would you mind to send me one of those CHMs for testing? Just use my email alexander.halser(at)ec-software.com.

[Nadia Gaganova]

Thanks a lot for the updated version!