I have downloaded the HelpStudio for evaluation.
I need to create a help system for a web site (i.e. pure HTML-pages). The idea is to have a helpsite containing the help info generated by HelpStudio, so that users can search through it at their leasure.
In the actual operational site (the one to be supported by this help system), I 'd like to create som context-sensitve help. The user would have , eg., some "?" icons to click on or something like that. The link is then supposed to bring up a new browser window, with the relevant topic selected.
I have looked into the documentation but can find no information in this regard.
I have had a look at HelpMaker, from http://www.vizacc.com/gen_download.php, and they solve the problem of linking into a framed website as follows:
1. Each leaf-page has a Javascript function that checks whether the page is open in a frame or stand-alone
2. If not open in a frame, then it calls the URL of the website with its own page location added as parameter in the url
3. The main frame, OnLoad, checks if there is a parameter in the request, and then opens the entire frame with the page specified in the paramter displayed
4. The navigation tree, with some fiddles, is then also open on the correct branch/leaf. Hoever, the "fiddles" are beyond the technical capabilities of an avreage user, so any update requires IT-support.
Is there a way in which I can accomplish a similar feat in the HelpStudio by injectingg appropriate javascript, and how ? Perhaps as outlined above, or perhaps there may be some features that I simply have not yet discovered.
Plan B would be to let the ineractive help open just the actual page, but on the actual page have a link to the framed solution. idealy, somehow ensuring that the framed solution opens on the correct page, and the navigation tree shows the correct leaf.
So the problem remains: how can I do that?
TIA
peter
