How to create a link to a topic in another CHM help file ? : IBE Software Support Portal

How to create a link to a topic in another CHM help file ? Print

Modified on: Mon, 2 Mar, 2020 at 10:14 AM

You can link from one CHM help file to another one's specific topic as follows:

Make sure both CHM files are placed in the same folder
In your HelpNDoc project, create an Internet link with the following URL (without the quotes): "ms-its:YOUR_SECOND_HELP_FILE.chm::/HELP_ID.htm"

Where you replace "YOUR_SECOND_HELP_FILE" by the file name of the other help file and "HELP_ID" with the Help ID of the topic to link to.

You can learn how to setup Help IDs for your topics in the following step by step guide:

How to manage your topic identifiers in HelpNDoc

You can learn more about this topic from Microsoft's own documentation:

About HTML Help URLs

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