Can I use DreamWeaver Sites to connect to RH Server?

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June 13, 2012
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Wondering if anyone's using DreamWeaver to create HTML topics, then publishing them to a RoboHelp Server. I tried setting up a site in DW, using the WebDAV and FTP options to try and connect to the remote RH Server, but am not successful.

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Hi, Ed

Using Dreamweaver per se, is not a problem when creating topics to be included in a RH project. However, you don't say if you are authoring Dreamweaver in the context of the RoboHelp client editing environment. No matter what you author your HTML topics in, you will need to either import them into your RH Project, or configure RH to use Dreamweaver instead of it's default built-in editor. Then when your RH project is ready, you can publish that content to the RoboHelp Server. You can't just copy/paste or FTP content to a RoboHelp Server. It is a database driven server application and requires RoboHelp's client application to prepare necessary files to make them compatible. That's why you publish from the RH client application.

John Daigle

Adobe Certified RoboHelp and Captivate Instructor

Evergreen, Colorado

www.showmethedemo.com

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Legend

Hi, Ed

Using Dreamweaver per se, is not a problem when creating topics to be included in a RH project. However, you don't say if you are authoring Dreamweaver in the context of the RoboHelp client editing environment. No matter what you author your HTML topics in, you will need to either import them into your RH Project, or configure RH to use Dreamweaver instead of it's default built-in editor. Then when your RH project is ready, you can publish that content to the RoboHelp Server. You can't just copy/paste or FTP content to a RoboHelp Server. It is a database driven server application and requires RoboHelp's client application to prepare necessary files to make them compatible. That's why you publish from the RH client application.

John Daigle

Adobe Certified RoboHelp and Captivate Instructor

Evergreen, Colorado

www.showmethedemo.com

John DaigleAdobe Certified RoboHelp and Captivate InstructorNewport, Oregon

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Anonymous

Thanks, John, for the quick answer.

I'm setting up a small test project, with content originating in Word and cleaned up in Dreamweaver. I figured that I'd have to put it into RoboHelp and publish that way, just wanted to see if it was possible to skip the RH client route.

-=Ed.

RoboColum_n_

Legend

Hi Ed.

As you are authoringn in Word, you may want to consider RoboHelp's ability to link out to a Word file. Basically you continue to author in a Word file that is linked to your RoboHelp project. Then when you are ready, you just click a button in RoboHelp which updates all your topics. From there you are publish to the RoboHelp Server. This does away with Dreamweaver. Might be worth looking at.

Colum

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