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Hi
Please forgive my ignorance when describing my issues. I got thrown into this without any training, and I'm desparately trying to learn.

I have a set of online help written in oxygen. I am supposed to generate it using webhelp. (That's what I've been told that I need to do.) I understand how to get it generated, but when I generate it, the output does not display in frames. Each of the topics opens with an Open with frames link at the top. I need the topics to open with the index open on the left and the topic information open on the right.

Is there some way that I can get oxygen to automatically generate the help topics to open in the frames?

Thanks for any help you can give.
Natasha

Hi Natasha,

If you are publishing the DITA content by applying a DITA scenario of type "WebHelp" then at the end of the transformation Oxygen should open an "index.html" which is a frameset containing a TOC on the left and the topics content on the right.

Our User Manual is also generated in WebHelp and it looks like this:
http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-oxygen/

If you are opening individual topic files from the output directory by double clicking then those opened topics do not contain the left-side topic.
You should use the "index.html" instead to open the entire WebHelp frameset.

Regards,
Radu

Thanks. That clears up that part. Now of course I have another question
The helpset that I am working with is context sensitive. In this case it is connected to a whole application built using Oracle forms. When the user clicks the help button, they are supposed to be directed to help for that specific form. I am having troubles telling the developers what to launch when the button is clicked. When I run index.html, I get the frames like I need...Yay! But there is nothing in the address bar that indicates which page I'm accessing. Is there a way of calling Index.html and referencing a specific topic. The only thing that I can think of is like a bookmark or something? Does my question even make sense?

Thanks again.

Hi Natasha,

Does my question even make sense?

Actually your question is the most asked question with regard to WebHelp

So if you open a single individual topic in the browser, it will contain an extra link at top called "With Frames". If you click that button the browser will open a location which will have the TOC on the left and the topic on the right.
The URL of that location looks like:

http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-oxygen/ ... -dita.html

So the trick is to open the "index.html" but also to pass it a parameter which points to the topic which should be opened in the right part.

Regards,
Radu

Thanks so much for your help. I managed to get it working YAY!