There is sample code in help under Java API. The very last bit of code
(ACL) shows a function dmphelp() ... I'll paste it at the end of my e-mail.
I'm not able to get it to work after updating paths to match my install
(for example, to "...editorinstall\hc". The very first java_static() is
failing with [A30158] The Java method getDMPHelp has thrown an exception.
(The rest fail, tooo ... help, map with the same message. The final
java_instance() fails [A30133] No Java class for the object can be found.
Chasing code through the Editor install ultimately leads back to a function
I can't find: _hc_init().
FWIW: In looking at the path in that sample and looking at my own DMC
builds, it appears that the map is stored, at least in DMP 6.0 M010, in
../project/WEB-INF/toc/en_US.xml.
Anyone have thoughts about getting that ACL to load my DMC build? Or even
to load Help Center?
function dmphelp(id=") {
local dmproot = "c:/temp/dmc";
local help = java_static('com.arbortext.dmp.help.LaunchDMP',
'getDMPHelp', dmproot);
local map = java_static('com.arbortext.dmp.help.PropertiesIdMapper',
'getIdMapper', dmproot.'/project/WEB-INF/toc/english.properties');
local helpid = java_instance(map, 'getMatchId', id);
java_instance(help, 'display', helpid);
}
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Brett McCorkle <
brett.mccorkle@erieinsurance.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the reminder, Paul. Here is the official response from PTC:
>
> I could not find anything other than the Arbortext Help topic you
> mentioned. A developer reviewed source code and found no mention of
> idmap.properties. As a result, we conclude this is an obsolete feature and
> has been worked out of the code.
> The Editor communicates with Help Center via java rpc. See
> APTPATH/packages/tools/_helpcenter.acl for examples of how the Editor does
> context sensitive help via the dmphelp() ACL function. The topic IDs are
> compiled into the Editor binary via a build process that extracts some IDs
> from the documentation source.
> For our own Help Center, we use the resourceid tag in the DITA topic
> prolog tag to hold a unique identifier for the topic. During the publishing
> process, the resourceid value is taken from the DITA source and put into a
> META tag in the head of the HTML topic. The META value is what the software
> looks for to find the right topic.
>
> So that explains why I couldn't find idmap.properties and gives some
> insight on how we're supposed to call specific topics and how PTC does it
> for their help.
>
> The push we had to do this fizzled out so we never ended up testing it
> out. If anyone has had any experience with it, I'd love to hear about what
> they did.
>
