[Framers] [WTF ramemaker] Best Practices for HTML Online help

[Robert Lauriston]

I've generated CSH map files using various tools (standalone RoboHelp,
FrameMaker + WebWorks, FrameMaker + MIF2Go, FrameMaker + RoboHelp,
Flare, Oxygen, Scroll HTML Exporter, Paligo) and they all worked
perfectly.

They don't generate the map IDs (topic identifiers) themselves, you
write those yourself. The map number (context ID) is a UUID. Here's a
example from RoboHelp's old Salesbuilder sample project:

#define My_Pipeline    1
#define Accounts    2
#define Contacts    3
#define Opportunities    4
#define Configuration    5
#define New_Account_General    6
#define New_Account_Contacts    7
#define New_Account_Opportunities    8
#define New_Account_Market_History    9
#define New_Account_News    10
#define New_Contact_General    11
#define New_Contact_Activities    12
#define New_Contact_Notes    13

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 2:32 AM 'Chris Despopoulos' via Writers &
Techies on Framemaker
<writers--techies-on-framemaker at googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
> ... I'm not a fan of generated mapping IDs...  A table can get pretty big, and you had better come up with a naming convention that makes it easy to sort through all the entries.  Generated IDs probably won't suit that need.