Obtaining or creating map files

Map files (also known as header files) are text files that include a list of topic IDs and their corresponding map numbers. These files contain the same information whether they are created with a development tool such as C or C++ or with RoboHELP.

How they differ is in the way in which authors and developers work with them.

Developer-supplied map files

Auto-generated map files in RoboHELP

The way RoboHELP generates map files depends on whether the author is creating text-only topics or window-level topics.