Clling a Compiled HTML HelpFile Topic from Web Form
Ben:
I'm a project manager on a development project in a client's Oracle environment. We want to deliver help files from the unix server when a user presses the F1 key or the ? button. The application runs on the server and users have access to it through web forms. In the new web-based application, we want to be able to access compiled HTML Help files (.chm) AND a specific topic in the file - a context sensitive approach. Our developers are using the WEB.SHOW_DOCUMENT call and the help file name to get just the help file, but we can't figure out how to call a specific topic in the file (topic ID's and numbers have been assigned to each topic and the file is compiled with the ID's in it). Do you have any way to do this? If so, can you provide a script that works?
Also, when the file is delivered, the users get the Open/Save dialog box prior to delivery. Have you ever heard of a way to supress this dialog programmatically so the user won't see the dialog? I have seen this work in the real world but have never been able to figure it out.
Thanks.
Eric Blythe (eric.blythe@weyerhaeuser.com)