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Sort order of projects

Stefan H.

06 September 2007 08:45

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I want to change the order of the projects as they are shown in the chm. It is per default alphabetically?

Is it possible to change this behaviour and how? Any hint welcome.

Thanks, Stefan

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  Matt Bates 06 September 2007 10:19

  The project order for built help files is the same as the order they appear in the Document! X IDE. You can change the order by adding / removing the projects.

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  Stefan H. 07 September 2007 02:02

  Matt,

  if the behaviour would be as you described, I havn't asked.

  Try it by yourself: Take 3 VB6 Projects and add them to Document!X. After the build they are sorted according to the project names set inside the vbps from a to z. I have changed a project name and after this the order was a different one. It was again alphabetically sorted by the project names.

  It's not comfortable if I have to change a lot of things in sourcecode (remember the Enum problem I posted here). But I cannot change the project names to get the order I expected here. Please fix this issue or give me a workaround description.

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  GV 25 September 2007 11:08

  For my NET assembly projects, I open the Doc X project file in a text editor and cut-paste - reorder the files (the DocX file is XML).

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  Stefan H. 26 September 2007 01:38

  The order in the Doc X project file is the one I want in the chm. But after generating it the projects are alphabetically sorted according to their vb project names. I didn't got any help until now. Is there anybody from Innovasys who can help me?

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  Richard Sloggett 26 September 2007 03:21

  We did reply to the support incident you raised, on the 19th September. You are correct that VB projects are always sorted alphabetically in the Table of Contents. This differs from .NET documentation where the order follows the order in which items were added to the project. 

  We will be implementing a feature in the next Document! X update to allow you to specify unsorted, but at present there isn't a workaround to re-order the Table of Contents I'm afraid.

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  Stefan H. 26 September 2007 03:56

  Thanks Richard,

  I didn't got a reply for my support incident so I asked again here. What is the planned release date for the next update?

  We need this feature. I don't want to switch to HTMLHelp compiler.

  Stefan

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  Richard Sloggett 26 September 2007 04:01

  I don't have a date as yet for the next update. As a workaround, you can open the .hhp file in the output directory with the Microsoft HTML Help Workshop, re-order the Table of Contents and then click the Compile toolbar button to build the .chm.

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  Stefan H. 26 September 2007 04:55

  Thanks, that's working for my project!