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Hipgnostic
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September 23, 2011
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Linking RoboHelp Content Between Two Projects

  • September 23, 2011
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Greetings!

I'm trying to find a way to link content between two RoboHelp projects. The idea behind this being that each project is developed arround application access, with one project being general and the other requiring elevated access. Is it possible possible to link and update content between projects using only the RoboHelp files?

For example:

Project A will include folders 1-10 of a TOC.

Project B will only include folders 6-10 of Project A's TOC.

Any suggestions for how to achieve this in RoboHelp 8?

Many, many thanks in advance.

-D

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Jeff_Coatsworth
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Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
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September 23, 2011

You could probably do this in 1 project by using RH9's Content Categories

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HipgnosticAuthor
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September 23, 2011

I've heard great things about this feature, but I think it falls slightly outside of dynamic filters.

Perhaps a better way to describe what I am trying to achieve would be as follows:

Project A will have a TOC with a Home Page and 10 content topics.

Project B will have a TOC with a Home Page and 5 content topics that are includes in Project A (6-10).

The shared topics are identitcal. I only want to have to update them in one place.

I want to be able update 6-10 in Project A and will dynamically update Project B when built.

Any ideas for how to achieve this?

Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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September 24, 2011

So different people have access to different help outputs, is that the scenario?

If so, wouldn't using build tags and then generating two outputs so that one output has all the topics and one has a limited set achieve what you want?

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

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