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Jared Hess
Jared Hess
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August 23, 2013
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Are there any project analysis tools to optimize a project?

  • August 23, 2013
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So, our devs use Coverity (http://www.coverity.com) to scan their code to look for problem areas they can refactor. My boss asked me if there are something out there like that but for documentation projects. I know RH offers the Tools | Reports, but I'm worndering if there are Adobe or 3rd party tools out there that can analyze a RH documentation project in the background to provide you with a list of items to fix or improve. I'm also looking for something that checks a documentation project for duplicate paragraphs, that we could then rewrite as snippets.

For example, MadCap's Flare has an Analyzer tool: http://www.madcapsoftware.com/products/analyzer/

Is anyone aware of tools like this that works with RH projects?

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Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
Community Expert
August 23, 2013

I am not aware of any tool that does what you want with RoboHelp but I wonder if there are such tools more readily available for Word. If there are, you could generate a printed document and work with that.

Please follow this link and submit a feature request. Make sure you mention Flare has such a tool, albeit a chargeable extra.

http://www.Adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform&product=38

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

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Willam van Weelden
Willam van Weelden
Inspiring
August 24, 2013

You can also use the W3C Validator to check for problems in the HTML. It’s under File > W3C Compliance.

As far as I see, what Flare Analyzer offers is offered in RoboHelp under reports and in the project manager. (Broken links, missing images, etc.)

Greet,

Willam

Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
Community Expert
August 24, 2013

I think one the things Analyzer does and what Jared is looking for is that it scans all the topics and suggests where a snippet could be used instead of having numerous instances of the same text.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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