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"Locate" button is disabled in Index tab of CHM output
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 5:47 am
by khcy82nvh
Hi guys
I used Oxygen to publish CHM output. The Locate button is disabled when I select a topic via"Index" tab; however, it is enabled if I select a topic via "Search" tab. Is it working mechanism of CHM, if not, any solutions for this issue?
Thanks a lot
Regards,
Re: "Locate" button is disabled in Index tab of CHM output
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2012 11:55 am
by sorin_ristache
Hi,
The
Locate button is disabled when the current page is not linked in the
Contents tab. It does not matter if the current tab is
Search or
Index, if the current page from the right side panel is not displayed in the Table of Contents from the
Contents tab then the
Locate button is disabled because it cannot select that page in the
Contents tree. This is normal behavior in CHM files.
If the current page is linked in the
Contents tab but the
Locate button is disabled please
send us a working set of sample files (the input files of the Oxygen transformation) for reproducing the problem. Also please specify the term that you click on the
Index tab for displaying the page for which the
Locate button is disabled.
Regards,
Sorin
Re: "Locate" button is disabled in Index tab of CHM output
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2012 7:12 am
by khcy82nvh
Thanks for your reply
I have sent a sample working copy to Technical Support of Oxygen to reproduce the issue.
I am looking forward to your solutions.
Regards,
Re: "Locate" button is disabled in Index tab of CHM output
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 6:31 pm
by sorin_ristache
Hi,
You are right, the Locate button is disabled when a topic is opened by a double click on a term in the list of index terms in the Index tab, even though that topic is linked in the Table of Contents (the Contents tab). The Locate button does not work correctly for the Index tab, although it always works correctly for the Search tab. Unfortunately the options in the Microsoft HTMLHelp compiler project file are undocumented (only some unofficial and incomplete documentation is available for HHP project files) and the values that we tried for the CHM toolbar buttons do not seem to fix the Locate button behavior for the Index tab. We hope to find a fix in the future for this minor annoyance.
Regards,
Sorin
Re: "Locate" button is disabled in Index tab of CHM output
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2012 7:39 pm
by khcy82nvh
Hi
Even though the Locate button is disabled when selecting an topic in Index tab, I still have some concerns.
For example, when I select a topic in Index tab, and switch to Content tab; in my opinion, the topic I have chosen previously in Index tab must be highlighted or reflected in Content tab. Am I correct about his assumption? However in reality, with the sample working set that I sent to Oxygen Technical Support, the topic I chose in Index tab are not highlighted or reflected in Content tab.
I am wondering whether I had defined <indexterm> incorrectly in DITA files.
Thanks
Re: "Locate" button is disabled in Index tab of CHM output
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:20 am
by sorin_ristache
Hi,
khcy82nvh wrote:For example, when I select a topic in Index tab, and switch to Content tab; in my opinion, the topic I have chosen previously in Index tab must be highlighted or reflected in Content tab. Am I correct about his assumption?
The topic must be highlighted in
Content tab only if the switch from the
Index tab to the
Content tab is performed by pressing the
Locate button. That assumes the
Locate button is enabled when the current tab is the
Index tab. Unfortunately this is exactly the problem (which we don't have a fix for, yet) with the CHM output file created by the DITA transformation: the
Locate button is disabled when the current tab is the
Index one.
Regards,
Sorin
Re: "Locate" button is disabled in Index tab of CHM output
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:49 pm
by khcy82nvh
Hi
I get it, finally.
Please get me informed when Oxygen has the batch to fix this problem.
Thanks for your valuable feedback
Regards,
Re: "Locate" button is disabled in Index tab of CHM output
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2019 4:19 pm
by MarcelM
Hi,
the reason for the 'Locate' button problem is a change in the file "...\dita-ot-3.3\plugins\org.dita.htmlhelp\xsl\map2htmlhelp\map2hhpImpl.xsl":
There is an Oxygen Patch:
<!-- OXYGEN PATCH START EXM-18626 -->
Auto Index=Yes
Binary TOC=Yes
Compatibility=1.1 or later
<!-- OXYGEN PATCH END EXM-18626 -->
If you switch back to
Binary TOC=No
the button works fine.
The original dita framework has no "Binary TOC" entry at all. So the default of the help compiler is used, which is "No".
Marcel
Re: "Locate" button is disabled in Index tab of CHM output
Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2019 2:09 pm
by Radu
Hi Marcel,
Thanks for the feedback, I will add an internal issue to look into this, indeed we have these changes you found in the XSLT stylesheet, we made them a long time ago so we need to reconsider why we took that decision.
Regards,
Radu