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Index is empty in a chm file compiled with Microsoft HTML Help Workshop

Hi,
I am working with Microsoft Html Help Workshop and trying to build a help project which has more than 19k help files including html, css, png etc files. I built an hhp file as new.hhp and put folllowing lines in it

 [OPTIONS]
   Auto Index=Yes
   Auto TOC=9
   Compatibility=1.1 or later
   Compiled file=new.chm
   Default Window=TriPane
   Default topic=HomePage.htm
   Display compile progress=Yes
   Error log file=log.log
   Full-text search=Yes
   Index file=Index.hhk
   Language=0x409 English (United States)

 [WINDOWS]
   TriPane="new",,"Index.hhk",,"HomePage.htm",,,,,0xe2520,255,0x304e,[0,0,800,600],,,,,2,,0


 [FILES]

I checked the option to create a binary index.

87107-create-index.png


I checked the option for including keywords.

87321-include-keyword.png


I compiled it as new.chm and it searches for all the required topics but index file is empty.

![87277-empty-index-img.png


I also checked the index.hhk file and it is empty too..

87312-image.png


Its not possible for me to include keywords manually for 19k files. What should I do to add keywords automatically into index file?

I am adding random tags to this question since I couldn't find the appropriate ones. Please feel free to add the right and remove unnecessary tags or put the question at right place.


Thanks for paying attention.

windows-10-generalwindows-10-network
create-index.png (7.6 KiB)
include-keyword.png (10.3 KiB)
image.png (4.9 KiB)
image.png (20.5 KiB)
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CandyLuo-MSFT answered CandyLuo-MSFT commented

Hi,

Microsoft HTML Help Workshop is currently not supported in the Q&A forums, the supported products are listed over here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/products (more to be added later on).

For the related questions about Microsoft HTML Help Workshop, you might have this asked in here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/html-help-workshop

Please Note: Since the web site is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.

Best Regards,
Candy


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Thanks for the reply.

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You are welcome. :) You could accept the useful reply as answer if you want to end this thread up.

Appreciate your understanding.

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Hi,
Can you please tell me about some more places where I can this question?
Thanks in advance.

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RashmiGupta answered RashmiGupta edited

As mentioned in accepted answer, I asked the question here and got the desired results using FAR HTML.

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Thanks for your sharing. Have a wonderful day! :)

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