In my mind I can see us having multiple Robohelp projects managed by GitHub, each with different auuthors. One project is likely to contain content that is reused in a lot of other projects.How would I manage this in RoboHelp?Can I import selected content from project A into project B?Would the author of project B be informed when that content changes?Can the content be automatically be reimorted before I generate a target from project B?

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can I reuse content from Project A in Project B?

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In my mind I can see us having multiple Robohelp projects managed by GitHub, each with different auuthors. One project is likely to contain content that is reused in a lot of other projects.

How would I manage this in RoboHelp?

Can I import selected content from project A into project B?
Would the author of project B be informed when that content changes?
Can the content be automatically be reimorted before I generate a target from project B?

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Amebr

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You may also want to look at the link functionality in New UI. It's much more limited than the similar feature in Classic (for example it doesn't include any images from your linked topics, you have to link them in the correct spot manually, and you can't link snippets), but perhaps it would work in your situation. You get a little icon indicating the file is linked and whether it matches the source or not. You can find details on Peter's site in the Robohelp Tour section.

You can also request features and report issues here: https://tracker.adobe.com/
Post the item number in the discussion so people can easily vote if they want the same functionality.

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George McGeachieAuthor

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thanks for the tracker link, where I found out that they've fixed a Word bug I've observed - RH-10361 | Tracker (adobe.com)

(there is one more bug. though - incorrect titles, possibly due to having multiple 'heading 1' and 'heading 2' styles)

Peter Grainge

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On starting a new project, the author could take a copy of Project A as the starter for Project B. Project B would be quite separate so changes in either will not be notified.

You can import topics from one project to another but it is not an automatic process. How would the system know which projects are unique to the new project and which are to be updated? You can either import or copy using Windows Explorer.

Is Project A common to all projects and a change in one has to be made to all? If so Merged Help might be a solution but that introduces many other considerations. Merged Help (grainge.org)

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George McGeachieAuthor

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Merged Help might be a solution that works for us - we'd manage it with a single GitHub repository

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