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Linking to Topics in Another Plugin [message #531138]

Mon, 03 May 2010 16:34

Ole Ersoy
Messages: 201
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi,

Anyone know how to link to topics or content contained in another help plugin? I'd also like to link to a topic for which the infocenter generates the content (topic containers where the topic does not have an href corresponding and only serves as a category, so the infocenter generates the page with links to subtopics).

TIA,
- Ole

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Re: Linking to Topics in Another Plugin [message #531147 is a reply to message #531138]

Mon, 03 May 2010 17:27

Chris Austin
Messages: 28
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi Ole,

If I understand your question correctly, 1 way to link to other plugin topics is to use a relative path in your html, something like this:

<a href="../../other.plugin.id/html/othertopic.html">Other Topic</a>

As far as the generated topics, I don't know of a way to find them at runtime, since the nav number changes based on how many books you have. If someone else knows, feel free to jump in.

What may be helpful is some new functionality in 3.6:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=190467

This feature allows you to include the dynamic children's list right in the topic.

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Re: Linking to Topics in Another Plugin [message #531400 is a reply to message #531147]

Tue, 04 May 2010 14:09

Ole Ersoy
Messages: 201
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Chris,

Excellent - Thank you. Linking to content in other plugins looks easy enough.

It seems the 3.6 feature is only for adding sub topics to an overview page, if I understand correctly. What I'm looking for is the ability to link to a generated overview page from another page that's possibly located in a different plugin. So for instance if the topic had a unique id:

      <topic id="someUniqueID" label="Make it Simple">
      </topic>

Then, if there was a link interceptor / listener that gets notified in the event of a click on the anchor element, it could resolve a link specified like this:

<a href="href="../../other.plugin.id#someUniqueID"></a>

Thanks again,
- Ole

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Re: Linking to Topics in Another Plugin [message #531402 is a reply to message #531138]

Tue, 04 May 2010 14:12

Ole Ersoy
Messages: 201
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

ooops - The anchor element example should look like this:

<a href="../../other.plugin.id#someUniqueID"></a>

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