by Tim Green » Tue Feb 20, 2018 8:31 am
Hi John,
Ah, when you said you were importing them it sounded as though you wanted to convert them to HM projects and keep their multi-level structure. You can link to an existing CHM like that without problems. You just need to select the CHM directly in the Help File: field in the Link tool. Then Help+Manual will look inside the file and show you the topics, which you can then select directly:
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Note that this will only work if the CHMs are all in the same folder when they are distributed. Also, since these CHMs already exist, the master file with the main TOC should have exactly the same name that they are expecting to see, otherwise it won't work (since you can't change that inside the existing CHMs).
In some cases you may also need to manually create a [MERGE FILES] setting in your master project:
- In the Project Explorer, navigate down to Configuration > Publishing Options > Microsoft HTML Help > Extended .HHP Settings
- In the editor box on the right, enter [MERGE FILES] on the first line.
- After that, enter the name of each child CHM file on a single line below that. The file names must not contain any spaces, accented characters or non-alphanumeric characters. No blank lines.
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Regards,
Tim (EC Software Documentation & User Support)
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