How can I multi-find and replace relative paths to external topics?

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I am using RH7 and publishing to a company server share. External topics are saved on the same server share and linked on my local drive to create a relative link. How can I do a multi-find and replace on the relative links to change the path to the external docs? The paths do not show up in the Topics List because they are relative, not absolute. Although changing all of the many paths manually would be job security, I would like an easier fix. Thanks for any help.

Captiv8r · Answer

Hi thereIf I were in your shoes I'd handle this as follows:Create a redirect topic for each of the links in question. The redirect topic would store the ultimate (and correct) link. Then from any topics needing the link, you link to the redirect topic (which is part of your help system).The beauty in this is that if you have a page that is linked to from perhaps 100 topics and the link changes for some reason, you only change it once in the redirect topic and all is well.Cheers... Rick  Helpful and Handy LinksRoboHelp Wish Form/Bug Reporting FormBegin learning RoboHelp HTML 7, 8 or 9 within the day!Adobe Certified RoboHelp HTML TrainingSorcerStone BlogRoboHelp eBooks

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