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nylarising
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November 20, 2007
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problem with merged help

  • November 20, 2007
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argggh. ok. i (thought i) followed peter grainge's merged help on a simple merged webhelp project, but am having a devil of a time producing the desired result, and updating the published files to show what's been merged (e.g., the child projects).

the top-most level of the directory structure i'm using is called fruits. within that i have ~main and ~sub (with tildes). within ~sub
i have two child projects: apples and oranges.

when i publish, the resulting toc shows (repeats) the parent (what's in ~main, not the child projects), and when i look in explorer, each child project shows the same directory structure as the parent (including the mergedProjects directory). i'm using lowercase file names when i generate, and even though i've specified each, e.g., c:\fruits\testPublish\mergedProjects\apples and c:\fruits\testPublish\mergedProjects\oranges, the publishing result shows that the child server details are going to the root directory (c:\fruits\testPublish).

what the heck? (and btw, i can't get this to work properly using peter's demo file either.) pls help correct the error of my ways.
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Correct answer nylarising
You're indicating that you're generating to the testPublish folders and publishing to the testGenerate folders.

Might that be the problem? I'd empty all the generate/publish folders, then ensure that your Start path and Publish destinations are correct.


Good luck,
Leon

thanks for the help. the issue has been resolved.

i was erroneously attempting to generate and publish the subprojects from the master, even though their files weren't actually in the project (pane). apparently, i was literally reading peter's directions, which did not specifically indicate that i should generate and publish from each individual sub-project. as a result, i kept getting the master generating and publishing from within itself.

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Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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November 27, 2007
Thanks. That file contains the following:

Step 4 - Generate and Publish the Sub Project(s)

In Step 3, RoboHelp will have created additional directories under TestGenerate and TestPublish. Generate and publish each sub project to the appropriate directory under merged projects.

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nylarisingAuthor
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November 27, 2007
lol. thanks for the reply. peter, your overall instructions and summary did help, but it was a struggle that was not initially clear to me. could be that the queen's english is different than my good ol' usa english.
Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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November 27, 2007
There are no instructions in the merged webhelp download. Also I cannot find a file with that name. Can you point me to exactly what you downloaded?

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nylarisingAuthor
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November 27, 2007
take a look at Merging WebHelp (on your site) and within the zip (found in "click here to download the demo projects links" ( http://www.grainge.org/pages/authoring/merging_webhelp/merging_webhelp_original.zip), there is an Instructions directory which contains the file to which i referred.
Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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November 27, 2007
Step 7 - Generate and Publish the Child Project(s)

That would seem to cover it!

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nylarisingAuthor
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November 27, 2007
ahhhh peter,

i was following the method that you had written in the download example (MergingWebHelpInstructions.htm), entitled "Merging Web Help WIth Relative Paths," which doesn't have a step 7.
MergeThis
MergeThis
Inspiring
November 21, 2007
Check that (for each child project) the first entry in the first page of the generation process, "Select Output Folder and Start Page." is correct.


Good luck,
Leon
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nylarisingAuthor
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November 23, 2007
i believe that i have created the webhelp generation and publish directories for each project correctly, but it's still not working.

the master project (fruits) is set to generate output (webhelp) to C:\help_projects\fruits\!SSL!\testGenerate\index.htm and publish in C:\help_projects\fruits\testPublish, while the two child projects are set to generate output to C:\help_projects\fruits\!SSL!\testGenerate\mergedProjects\apples and C:\help_projects\fruits\!SSL!\testGenerate\mergedProjects\oranges (respectively) and publish in C:\help_projects\fruits\testPublish\mergedProjects\apples\ and C:\help_projects\fruits\testPublish\mergedProjects\oranges\ (respectively).

when i look at explorer, the directory structure shows ~sub (with tildes) and the two child projects (apples and oranges), which simply contain the source files (no other RoboHelp published files), plus a mergedProjects directory, which shows the two child projects (apples and oranges), each containing fully published files. (see below for the structure i am seeing.) can someone shed some light on what i'm missing here? thks.

MergeThis
MergeThis
Inspiring
November 23, 2007
You're indicating that you're generating to the testPublish folders and publishing to the testGenerate folders.

Might that be the problem? I'd empty all the generate/publish folders, then ensure that your Start path and Publish destinations are correct.


Good luck,
Leon
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