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WebHelp Classic With Feedback Output

To publish a DITA map as a WebHelp Classic with Feedback system, follow these steps:

  1. Select the Configure Transformation Scenario(s) action from the DITA Maps Manager toolbar.
  2. Select the DITA Map WebHelp Classic with Feedback scenario from the DITA Map section.
  3. If you want to configure the transformation, click the Edit button.

    Step Result: This opens an Edit scenario configuration dialog box that allows you to configure various options in the following tabs:

    • Skins Tab - This tab contains a set of predefined skins that you can use for the layout of your WebHelp system output.
    • Parameters Tab - This tab includes numerous parameters that can be set to customize your WebHelp system output. See the Parameters section below for details about the most commonly used parameters for WebHelp Responsive transformations.
    • Filters Tab - This tab allows you to filter certain content elements from the generated output.
    • Advanced Tab - This tab allows you to specify some advanced options for the transformation scenario.
    • Output Tab - This tab allows you to configure options that are related to the location where the output is generated.

  4. Click Apply associated to begin the transformation.
  5. Enter the documentation product ID (value for the webhelp.product.id parameter) and the documentation version (value for the webhelp.product.version parameter).

    When the DITA Map WebHelp Classic with Feedback transformation is complete, your default browser opens the installation.html file. This file contains information about the output location, system requirements, installation instructions, and deployment of the output. Follow the instructions to complete the system deployment.

To watch our video demonstration about the feedback-enabled WebHelp system, go to https://www.oxygenxml.com/demo/Feedback_Enabled_WebHelp.html.

Parameters for Customizing WebHelp Classic with Feedback Output

To customize a transformation scenario, you can edit various parameters, including the following most commonly used ones:

args.default.language
This parameter is used if the language is not detected in the DITA map. The default value is en-us.
clean.output
Deletes all files from the output folder before the transformation is performed (only no and yes values are valid and the default value is no).
fix.external.refs.com.oxygenxml (Only supported when the DITA OT transformation process is started from Oxygen XML Author plugin)
The DITA Open Toolkit usually has problems processing references that point to locations outside of the directory of the processed DITA map. This parameter is used to specify whether or not the application should try to fix such references in a temporary files folder before the DITA Open Toolkit is invoked on the fixed references. The fix has no impact on your edited DITA content. Allowed values: true or false (default).
use.stemming
Controls whether or not you want to include stemming search algorithms into the published output (default setting is false).
webhelp.body.script
URL value that specifies the location of a well-formed XHTML file containing the custom script that will be copied in the <body> section of every WebHelp page.
webhelp.copyright
Adds a small copyright text that appears at the end of the Table of Contents pane.
webhelp.custom.resources
The file path to a directory that contains resources files. All files from this directory will be copied to the root of the WebHelp output.
webhelp.favicon
The file path that points to an image to be used as a favicon in the WebHelp output.
webhelp.footer.file
Path to an XML file that includes the footer content for your WebHelp output pages. You can use this parameter to integrate social media features (such as widgets for Facebook™, Twitter™, Google Analytics, or Google+™). The file must be well-formed, each widget must be in separate div or span element, and the code for each script element is included in an XML comment (also, the start and end tags for the XML comment must be on a separate line). The following code exert is an example for adding a Facebook™ widget:

<div id="facebook">
  <div id="fb-root"/>
  <script>
    <!-- (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
      if (d.getElementById(id)) return; 
      js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
      js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.0"; 
      fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }
       (document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); -->
    </script>
    <div data-share="true" data-show-faces="true" data-action="like"
       data-layout="standard" class="fb-like"/>
</div>

webhelp.footer.include
Specifies whether or not to include footer in each WebHelp page. Possible values: yes, no. If set to no, no footer is added to the WebHelp pages. If set to yes and the webhelp.footer.file parameter has a value, then the content of that file is used as footer. If the webhelp.footer.file has no value then the default Oxygen XML Author plugin footer is inserted in each WebHelp page.
webhelp.google.search.results
A file path that specifies the location of a well-formed XHTML file containing the Google Custom Search Engine element gcse:searchresults-only. You can use all supported attributes for this element. It is recommend to set the linkTarget attribute to frm for frameless (iframe) version of WebHelp or to contentWin for the frameset version of WebHelp. The default value for this attribute is _blank and the search results will be loaded in a new window. If this parameter is not specified, the following code will be used <gcse:searchresults-only linkTarget="frm"></gcse:searchresults-only>
webhelp.google.search.script
A file path that specifies the location of a well-formed XHTML file containing the Custom Search Engine script from Google.
webhelp.head.script
URL value that specifies the location of a well-formed XHTML file containing the custom script that will be copied in the <head> section of every WebHelp page.
webhelp.logo.image.target.url
Specifies a target URL that is set on the logo image. When you click the logo image, you will be redirected to this address.
webhelp.logo.image
Specifies a path to an image displayed as a logo in the left side of the output header.
webhelp.reload.stylesheet
Set this parameter to true if you have out of memory problems when generating WebHelp. It will increase processing time but decrease the memory footprint. The default value is false.
webhelp.search.custom.excludes.file
The path of the file that contains name patterns for HTML files that should not be indexed by the WebHelp search engine. Each exclude pattern must be on a new line. The patterns are considered to be relative to the output directory, and they accept wildcards such as '*' (matches zero or more characters) or '?' (matches one character). For more information about the patterns, see https://ant.apache.org/manual/dirtasks.html#patterns.
webhelp.search.japanese.dictionary
The file path of the dictionary that will be used by the Kuromoji morphological engine that Oxygen XML Author plugin uses for indexing Japanese content in the WebHelp pages.
webhelp.search.ranking
If this parameter is set to false then the 5-star rating mechanism is no longer included in the search results that are displayed on the Search tab (default setting is true).
webhelp.show.changes.and.comments
When set to yes, user comments, replies to comments, and tracked changes are published in the WebHelp output. The default value is no.
webhelp.sitemap.base.url
Base URL for all the loc elements in the generated sitemap.xml file. The value of a loc element is computed as the relative file path from the href attribute of a topicref element from the DITA map, appended to this base URL value. The loc element is mandatory in sitemap.xml. If you leave this parameter set to its default empty value, then the sitemap.xml file is not generated.
webhelp.sitemap.change.frequency
The value of the changefreq element in the generated sitemap.xml file. The changefreq element is optional in sitemap.xml. If you leave this parameter set to its default empty value, then the changefreq element is not added in sitemap.xml. Allowed values: <empty string> (default), always, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, never.
webhelp.sitemap.priority
The value of the priority element in the generated sitemap.xml file. It can be set to any fractional number between 0.0 (least important priority) and 1.0 (most important priority). For example, 0.3, 0.5, or 0.8. The priority element is optional in sitemap.xml. If you leave this parameter set to its default empty value, then the priority element is not added in sitemap.xml.

Related information:

Customizing WebHelp Classic Systems
WebHelp Classic with Feedback System
Parent topic: DITA Map to WebHelp Output

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