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From Page to Whole Help Set

From wwp-users:

• I think I mentioned before that I had problems getting back to a
  complete TOC (when multiple groups=true) from a direct link to a
  topic. There is a TOC icon to get back to the navigation pane, but not
  all the groups of the TOC are displayed in this case.

WebWorks Help works as follows:

•   Help
  
      Set1
        alpha.html
  
      Set2
        beta.html

Now, each help set contains a complete copy of the WWHelp run-time along with another copy at the top-level:

•   Help
  
      Set1
        alpha.html
        wwhelp
  
      Set2
        beta.html
        wwhelp
  
      wwhelp

Now, when a user opens a single file, such as "alpha.html", the page needs to know how to get to the WWHelp run-time. The answer is available in the "towwhdir.js" file:

•   Help
  
      Set1
        alpha.html
        wwhdata
          common
            towwhdir.js
        wwhelp
  
      Set2
        beta.html
        wwhdata
          common
            towwhdir.js
        wwhelp
  
      wwhelp

Normally, this file looks like this:

• function WWHToWWHelpDirectory()
  {
    return "";
  }

which means "it's right beside you".

In this case, we want it to look up a level and see ALL the help sets.

• function WWHToWWHelpDirectory()
  {
    return "../";
  }

At this point, you can officially ditch the lower-level WWHelp runtimes:

•   Help
  
      Set1
        alpha.html
        wwhdata
          common
            towwhdir.js
  
      Set2
        beta.html
        wwhdata
          common
            towwhdir.js
  
      wwhelp

This doesn't have anything to do with FireFox 3, IE, etc.