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rwrich21
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November 6, 2013
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Multiple Projects and Authoring Tools Setup

  • November 6, 2013
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Currently we have one project set up on Robohelp with 6,821 topics using word as the authoring tool.

Another team will be starting a new project that will be using FrameMaker as its authoring tool.

We are debating on whether to put these projects on separated servers or on the current servers as merged projects. We would like users for these different projects to not be able to see the other project.

My questions are

1.   Can you have separate authoring tools on one server for merged projects?

  2.  We know developers can write a script to control user access, how hard is it to write, where

       would it go?

System Attributes:

    Robohelp HTML V9.0

    RoboSource Control 3.1

    RoboHelp Server V9.0

    WebHelp Pro 9.0.1.262

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    RoboColum_n_
    RoboColum_n_
    Legend
    November 7, 2013

    You can publish the two projects to different areas on your RH Server context. That way they are completely separate and have separate URLs. Perhaps if you explain a little more about why you want to have these two projects merged yet control access to different user sets we can advise more.

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    rwrich21Author
    Inspiring
    November 7, 2013

    I did not know multiple projects could be on the same RH server without being merged.  I will also assume that they can have different authoring tools. I like word and the new project most likely will use FrameMaker. Is this correct?

    RoboColum_n_
    RoboColum_n_
    Legend
    November 7, 2013

    Yes you can have separate outputs on the RH Server BUT they all have to be WebHelp output published from within RoboHelp. Of course if you have the Adobe Technical Communication Suite you could have people authoring in Word and / or FrameMaker. You'd just need to link the relevant Word / FM files into your RH project and publish the output to the server.

    Think of the RH server areas as Windows direcotries.

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