atw: Re: RoboHelpX5 template question


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> From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:austechwriter-
> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ana Young
> Sent: Friday, 28 July 2006 8:53 AM
> To: AusTech
> Subject: atw: RoboHelpX5 template question
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Background:
> 
> 1) I have a very large help file with a fair amount of
> topics (and the number of topics will increase as the
> product evolves).
> 
> 2) I have a template for the topics.
> 
> 3) Among other things, the template has a footer with
> a link with the words "Send comments on this topic".
> 
> 4) Customers and editors are encouraged to click the
> link, which automatically opens an (Outlook) email
> addressed to my documentation department.
> 
> 5) I know that if I change the link in each topic, I
> can automatically generate the subject line with the
> topic name, however, for obvious reasons, I really do
> not want to change the footer of every topic.
> 
> Question:
> Is there a way that I can change the template and have
> the (correct) topic name inserted in the subject line
> when the link is clicked. For example, if I insert the
> link in each topic, the correct link to do this is:
> mailto:docdepartment@xxxxxxxxx?Subject=Topic%20Name
> 
> If Topic Name is a variable somewhere, I could
> (possibly) insert it as part of the link in the
> template and hopefully only have to change the
> template footer, rather than in each topic.
> 
> Anybody has done this before? Can this be done?
> 

The topic name is in the <title></title> of the HTML page, grab that using
some JS variable, e.g. titleName, and output "mailto:...Subject?"; +
titleName associated with a link in the footer.

Something like that.

OR put a link into the footer to a general HTML page containing a form for
them to insert comments. With the link to the form pass the title of the
topic page as the parameter and then let the form deal with the emailing etc
etc IOW the form loads and grabs the topic parameter as reference for the
comments that are then added and the whole lot is then sent off as an email.

IWO all they get is the form to fill-in as it pops up on the page; they
don't see the full blown Outlook etc email page (and so wont be tempted to
write essays! ;-))
Chris.


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