Mif2Go Question -- No .hhp file produced

[Reng, Dr. Winfried]

Hi,

Incidentally a colleague had the same problem today.
He had selected the wrong export format. Instead of
MS HTML Help he had selected Standard HTML.

Best regards

Winfried

> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com 
> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of 
> Jeremy H. Griffith
> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 3:03 AM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Cc: Lin Surasky
> Subject: Re: Mif2Go Question -- No .hhp file produced
> 
> On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 16:39:37 -0500, "Lin Surasky" 
> <Lin.Surasky at retalix.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> >I'm posting for a remote colleage who is trying to generate HTML Help
> >from FrameMaker 7.2 (unstructured). He says there is no .hhp file
> >created when he runs Mif2Go, but doesn't get any errors. 
> Since I can't
> >see what he's doing, where should I tell him to look (other than the
> >User  Guide!) to see what's wrong? I've never had this 
> problem, and have
> >no idea if it's even possible assuming he is choosing MS HTML Help as
> >the format (which he is).
> > 
> >Any ideas?
> 
> If he set WriteHelpProjectFile explicitly to No:
> 
> [MSHtmlHelpOptions]
> WriteHelpProjectFile=No
> 
> then no .hhp woud be written.  If he did not set it, and thus
> left it at the default (of Yes), an .hhp would be written 
> *unless* one already existed.  If he set it explicitly to Yes:
> 
> [MSHtmlHelpOptions]
> WriteHelpProjectFile=Yes
> 
> then a new .hhp would always be written, overwriting the
> previous one.
> 
> It's possible he's set an HHPFileName that can't be written
> because it's on a nonexistent drive, or points to a directory
> where he lacks write permission, or is an invalid file name.
> 
> HTH!
> -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
>   <jeremy at omsys.com>  http://www.omsys.com/