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Step 4: Open the topic root

To open the topic root(s), do File > Open Topic Roots; the main window will be iconized (or minimized) and an Open Topic Roots dialog will be displayed instead. From your file navigator, select the directories that you want to be topic roots (ex. The above-mentioned directory named BigFeet), drag the related icons and drop them into the Topic Root List area of the Open Topic Roots dialog. You should see the full path of these directory listed inside the Topic Root List area as illustrated below (In the example below, another topic root directory (www.php.net) has also been selected):


Open Topic Roots dialog that contains two topic roots (full scale)

Once you have opened the topic roots, click the OK button of the dialog. The dialog will disappear and a Progress dialog will be displayed.


Progress dialog (half scale)

Just click its Dismiss button and the main window will be displayed again, this time, with data in its table display. The table contains three rows -- three shortcut items. You can adjust the display size of each field column by dragging the field separation delimiters of the column title row. You should see some data under these columns:

Shortcut ID: It contains simply an allocated item number; here: [0], [1] and [2]

URL: It displays the URL associated with the shortcut file

Shortcut Name: It displays the shortcut file name

File Path (eventually): It displays the relative path of the shortcut file under the topic root; in this example, it is empty since all the shortcut files are located in the topic root directory itself (no sub-directory has been created)

Naming Policy: To be explained at Step 5

Status: It displays initially: "1 - xx0x xxxx xxxx", that is: a decimal number a hyphen and a binary number. The decimal number represents the import-and-integration state of the shortcut item from the "Created" state toward an "integrated" web page (or web file). The decimal number is, for the moment, not important but, for your information, state of 1 means "Created" item.

If you look at the related topic root directory; you will see three extra files"

These three files will contain more data as you progress. You can see their content since it is in ASCII format, but I strongly recommend not editing them.

 


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