What's Excluded
Some files are excluded automatically, like the default/front page (not a topic), or .EXE,
.GIF, .JPG, etc. files, or files with non-web encodings, or, in general, any file not
conforming to a standard web page. But .PDF and Word documents are accepted.
In addition, the list of excluded files may contain files you excluded manually (right click on a topic or selection). All such files appear as 'valid' in the excluded files' list; they can be restored.
Type 'invalid'
When a file in the list of excluded files has a type of invalid, it means it is not a
valid topic. The word invalid does not mean it is a corrupted file, just
invalid as a topic.
Restoring Excluded Files
Any file in the list that has a valid type ('valid' in the 'Type' column of the list)
can be restored to the project. This means that it will be removed from the excluded
files' list and added to 'Available Topics'.
Valid - but not
quite
Basic HTML elements like the <HTML> tag and the
<TITLE> tag, are mandatory for an HTML topic to be valid.
But when the <TITLE> tag is missing (for instance),
KSW still considers the topic as valid, only misconfigured. So it appears in the
list of excluded files with type 'valid (fix missing title)'. You can add a title to the
topic, and the next time you load the project KSW will remove it from the excluded list, and add it to
'Available Topics'.
Can't see a page in 'Available Topics'?
Look in 'Excluded Files'.
When a page does not show in 'Available Topics', always look in 'Excluded Files' first. It
may be missing the title, for instance.
Excluding a Filed Topic
When you exclude a filed/categorized topic (right-click), all instances are removed from
TOC, the topic is removed from the Index, and all terms based on this topic are removed.
Then the topic is added to the 'Excluded Files' list as 'valid'.