Responsive Webhelp : Add footer with links to topics

Post by **urbanrobots** » Fri Jul 06, 2018 11:19 pm

Hi,
We have frontmatter and glossary content in the ditamap that we'd like to include in the footer of the responsive webhelp. We can easily hide this content from the wh-tiles. However, it's trickier to then add these two hidden sections as links in the footer.

You do this on this page:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/ ... webauthor/

The footer has links to Glossary and Copyright.

How did you do this? We'll need these to be dynamic based on that ditamap.

Post by **ionela** » Mon Jul 09, 2018 3:03 pm

Hello,

To achieve this in our documentation we've used the solution you've indicated, we've hide the content from the wh-tiles and then we've added links in the footer (but the links are not dynamic).
Unfortunately, we do not have a solution to obtain this result dynamically based on the ditamap.

Regards,
Ionela

Post by **urbanrobots** » Thu Jul 26, 2018 5:03 pm

Okay, thanks anyway.

How did you add the links to the footer?

Post by **radu_pisoi** » Mon Jul 30, 2018 12:30 pm

Hi,

For creating the footer in our documentation we use a custom PHP file.

To generate a custom WebHelp Responsive footer, you can use the webhelp.fragment.footer parameter. This parameter specifies the path to an XHTML file that will replace the default WebHelp footer.

In the custom footer fragment, you can use the ${path(oxygen-webhelp-template-dir)} macro that allows you to generate links to the resources from the output folder. For instance, to generate a link to the Copyright topic the XML fragment may be:

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<div class="footer">

    <a href="${path(oxygen-webhelp-output-dir)}/topics/copyright.html">Copyright</a>

</div>

You can read more about WebHelp Responsive macros in our documentation:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/ ... aid-title5