Big problem with merged project

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June 20, 2007
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Wow there's nothing like a deadline to bring all sorts of problems down on your head!

Anyway, I must have made a huge goof somehow. My main project has the release notes in it as a merged project. The release notes are also their own separate project. I opened that project (PBMNOTES), I updated the release notes, and generated them as a .chm file in the same folder that my main project is in (but used a different name - I have pbmhelp.chm and pbmnotes.chm). Somehow this caused the release notes to overwrite ALL of the topics in my main project!!

So, my .htm files and topics for the main project are still there in the C:\PBM\Help\HtmlHelp folder, but they are not showing up AT ALL in the main PBHELP project, except as broken links. This is pretty bad. I've been using RoboHelp for about a year but have never tried to merge projects before, and I couldn't find anything at all in the Help file about this, so I'm really really really really hoping I can do something to fix it. Should erase the PBMNotes from my main project completely? I tried to re-generate the main project, but it's only generating the release notes stuff. Hopefully this all makes sense, I'm a little frazzled....
Thanks in advance.

Erin

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Anonymous

Thanks Phil! I was able to manually import the topics back into the main project, so I think the crisis has been averted! The PBMNotes project has been totally combined into my main project, which is not quite what I wanted to do, but I'll look at fixing that later...

Captiv8r

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Hi all

Naturally I never like to say something is flat out impossible, as I've encountered far too many "impossibilities" that occurred to say different. But personally, I'd be astounded if RoboHelp were to totally overwrite all the topic files and replace them with topic files from a different project.

Hmmm, in thinking about this, we *ARE* talking about RoboHelp HTML here and not RoboHelp for Word, aren't we?

And for that matter, what version are you using? I do recall an issue with version 2002 that was later addressed. It had a nasty habit of replacing the contents of one topic with the contents of another when rapidly double-clicking to switch topics. But if this were the case, it would only be affecting a single topic.

Cheers... Rick

Captiv8r

Legend

Hi Erin

First off, I'm pretty sure that things are just appearing worse than they really are. Think of FEAR. It's an acronym meaning False Evidence Appearing Real.

Let's try and break it down a bit, shall we?

You said you have one project named PBMHelp. I'm assuming this is the "Main" or "Master" project. So you inserted the merged project and that one is named PBMNotes?

I'm a bit fuzzy when you refer to renaming something. You said you used a different name? Did you rename the Master or the Sub? If it's the Sub, you should be fine by just changing the name back to what it was.

Assuming that I'm misunderstanding, it may help to just return back to the bare bones basics. Delete the sub .CHM(s) from any Master location. Double check the output locations of both Master and Sub. Re-Compile each file and place both fresh files in a common folder that is different from the project folders. Then run the master and test.

Cheers and good luck. Rick

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Phil_Wells

Inspiring

Hi ehoran,

I replied to somthing similar in a recent thread.

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=65&catid=449&threadid=1276979&enterthread=y

See if the above is any use to you.

Phil.

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Anonymous

Thanks for the help!
Hopefully I can explain myself a little better. My main project is PBHELP. PBMNOTES is the sub-project that I had merged into the main project. I had opened the PBMNOTES project to make some updates to it. When I generated the PBMNOTES.chm, it overwrote all the topics in my main project as well somehow. Now, when I open PBHELP, all I see are the topics for PBMNOTES. I can't generate a PBHELP.chm, because it isn't using the correct topics. I can see my PBHELP topics are all still in the folder where they should be, but I don't understand why RoboHelp isn't seeing them anymore. I deleted the merged project from the TOC in PBHELP, but I can't figure out how to get the original topics back, so that I can do the merge over again (and those instructions are very helpful Phil!), and generate the correct .chm.

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