How to Display the Contents Tab (TOC) in a Compiled Robohelp HTML Help File

Follow the directions in this post to display the Contents Tab (TOC) in a compiled Robohelp HTML Help File.

If you compile a Robohelp .CHM (pronounced “chum”) HTML help file and do NOT see your CONTENTS tab (TOC) anywhere, don’t panic.

There is actually a very simple reason why the CONTENTS tab does not display: you have not chosen it in your HTML single source layout template.

Follow these steps:

1) In your Robohelp project, generate your TOC, give it a name and save it.

2) Select View > Pods > Single Source Layouts and display the Single Source Layouts pod:

3) Right click  Microsoft HTML Help and, from the pop-up menu, select Generate to display the HTML Help Options dialog box:

4) Make sure your TOC is selected from the Table of Contents drop-down box.

5) Click Finish to close the dialog box.

Now when you generate your HTML help file, you should see your TOC in the Contents tab:

IMPORTANT:

You can generate more than one TOC for the same help project and generate different versions of the same file with different CONTENTS links.

Here is the same project with a different TOC selected from the drop-down list and attached to the HTML file: