Xmetal Author override default settings / values

[juu]

XMetal newb here, installed the trial of Author Enterprise 16.0 x64 …

I am looking at the XMetal Author sample called “DITA”, installed in
C:\Program Files\XMetaL 16.0\Author\Samples\DITA

The one whose root map node is called “Using World Time Pro”

I ran “Generate Output for DITA Map” which resulted in a new directory called “webhelp_out”.

In the webhelp_out directory tree is is a file called
webhelp_out\xmwebhelp\script\common_param.js

This file contains one statement:
var gHomePage=”http://na.justsystems.com”;

If I run the help web page there is a Home button which when clicked, goes to the above URL.

Some questions about this:

1. Where does the default value for gHomePage (ie. “http://na.justsystems.com”) come from?

2. How can I override the value of gHomePage for my own DITA project so that every generate uses my custom value and not the default?

Thank you for any suggestions.

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[nhu1]

The source is from here,

C:\ProgramData\SoftQuad\XMetaL\Shared\DITA_OT3.6\plugins\com.xmetal.webhelp\customization\common\xmwebhelp\script\common_param.js

Ning

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[juu]

Ok — thanks for that.

Let’s say I have two web help projects, and each project requires a distinct home page URL.

ie.
– http://project_1.com/foo
– http://project_2.com/bar

How do I accomplish that without manually editing the file you pointed to each time I generate one of the projects?

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