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Webframe.html search does not hit DX portion of HS project

Steve D

04 February 2008 09:20

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HS3.5, DX 5.2.x

HS project, using embedded DX project, resulting Webframe.html web site, a direct copy of the entire build directory to a webiste.

Search button does not search DX content, only HS content.

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  Permanently deleted user 07 February 2008 11:57

  At present, the full text search in the web output from HelpStudio will only search HelpStudio content. In the compiled help outputs (HTML Help 1.x or Help 2.x), the full text search will search all topics.

  Searching across HelpStudio and Document! X content in the web output is a feature that we hope to introduce in a future update to HelpStudio.

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  Steve D 11 February 2008 08:43

  I notice that ftsindex.js points only to HS pages - hence those search targets.

   Could I not update the file list from a DX build to include both HS and DX in search.

  In our use-case, the feature is really useless unless it hits both HS and DX content.

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  random 29 February 2008 09:14

  Is there a way to intervene in the creation of the ftsindex.js file? I noticed that if I add a page from the DocX project to it, the search finds the DocX page. So I guess my question is when is the ftsindex.js file created and is it possible to intervene in its creation to manually inject the DocX pages?

   

   

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  random 03 March 2008 14:42

  I worked arround this issue by recreating the ftsindex.js file. I get the list of the current index entries and keywords, adding the new ones from the dxc files that I queried using linq to xml, and then recreating the ftsindex.js file.

  Generally, it works well. The only "major" issue was that the dxc files do not contain the actaul titles of the pages so I had to retrieve those from the generated HTML files.