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USING ROBOHELP SERVER 8
Managing the server
How users navigate content
The user navigation and frequency.
View reports
You can click the View Reports icon
on the Reports page (Web Administrator).
View Reports
Displays a list of reports with information about the server.
Note:
To view projects or reports, publish content to the server using RoboHelp HTML. Reports contain information
about all projects on the server, both merged and non-merged.
Recommendation
For best results, use Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later to view and execute reports.
Access context-sensitive Help
Using context-sensitive Help, you can associate context IDs with topics. Using CSH API, you can retrieve topics
associated with a given context ID from the server. You can use the CSH API of the server to call a context-sensitive
Help topic from WebHelp Pro or FlashHelp Pro projects in RoboHelp HTML. You can access CSH for WebHelp Pro
and FlashHelp Pro projects from the CSH tool and the browser window.
Using the CSH tool, specify a URL and Map Number as follows:
•
For WebHelp Pro, specify
http://<server-name>/robohelp/server?project=<project
name>&area=<area-name>
in the Help URL and context ID in the map number.
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For FlashHelp Pro, specify the Help URL as
http://<server-
name>/robohelp/server?project=<projectname>&type=flashhelp&area=<area-name>
and context ID in
the map number.
To access context-sensitive Help using the browser window:
•
Specify the URL as
http://<server-name>/robohelp/server?project=<project name>&ctxid=<ctx
id>&area=<area-name>
for WebHelp Pro projects.
•
Specify the URL as
http://<server-name>/robohelp/server?project=<project name>&ctxid=<ctx
id>&type=flashhelp&area=<area-name>
for FlashHelp Pro projects.
You can use CSH API to access Help using a topic name. Enter the URL
http://<server-name>/<context-
name>/server?project=<project name>&tpc=<relative topic path>&area=<area-
name>[&type=flashhelp]
REST web services
The REST web services enable you to perform a search on the content and return results for the context-sensitive Help.
Using the REST services, you can send GET and POST requests to the RoboHelp server and get results in the XML
format. You can format the data and present it in another format in a RoboWindow.
When you install RoboHelp Server, some sample project files are stored at Program files/Adobe/Adobe RoboHelp
8/CSH API/RoboHelp.NET/[sample folder name].
