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lukep847985
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January 24, 2017
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I am looking at using RoboHelp for a Support site. How do I combine or merge all of my online help projects (Responsive HTML5) into one master project?

  • January 24, 2017
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Hi all,

Over the past six months I have created some small online help for four different projects.

I am planning to roll out a support site later this year and was wondering if, and how I can merge all of these projects to make one master project, so our users can go to it and self-help. It would be beneficial if users can go to this site and search for all of the available help in one place, which is Responsive HTML output.

My current support projects currently published independently on different urls. It would be ideal to combine them together to make a super support site. All the while, also keeping them independent (when required) to control publishing for both online and printed manuals. I still would like to keep RoboHelp as the single source of truth and reuse content regularly.

I would love to use RoboHelp to create and control all of the content on this site, including demo videos etc.

Any tips, tricks and feedback is appreciated.

Has anyone used RoboHelp for such a requirement and project? How did it go and what did you learn?

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Germanedge Solutions GmbH
Germanedge Solutions GmbH
Inspiring
January 24, 2017

Hi,

I'm using RH 2015 for exactly that purpose. You can take a look at the help:

Adobe RoboHelp 11 * Merging Help projects

This is for RH 11, but it works similar in RH 2015.

A short description of what to do is:

1. Create an empty project, possibly with one general file and a cover or the like

2. in this empty project, create a new TOC

3. In the TOC, click the icon "New merged project"

4. select the tab "FlashHelp/WebHelp/MultiScreen/Adobe AIR", enter a name for your 1. subproject and search the .xpj-file of your first subproject you want in the merge

5. repeat 4. for all your subprojects

6. generate an output

7. open your 1. subproject and output it to the folder "mergedProjects[Subproject]" in the directory where you put your merged project

8. repeat 7. for all other subprojects

That's it

Hope this helps

Karin

Peter Grainge
Community Expert
Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 24, 2017

There's a more detailed description on my site.

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achyut_com
Known Participant
May 16, 2019

Hi Peter,

When I use your method, the child projects are being displayed correctly however the parent redirect does not work, it shows the following:

Sheena Kaul
Community Manager
Sheena KaulCommunity Manager
Community Manager
January 24, 2017

Moving to RoboHelp​

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