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Jared Hess
Jared Hess
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February 11, 2013
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Publishing is Always Publishing All

  • February 11, 2013
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Hi there.

RH 9 (latest patch)

Windows 7-64-bit

WebHelp output

We have a couple of very large projects (2000+ topics in each) and publishing is taking a long time because even though we have Publish All cleared, it's still sending up all the files.

For example, in one of these large projects, I made changes to two topics, and added an index entry and then generated it and published it. The generation time isn't too bad and is what I would expect.

But the publish time for only changing two topics and an index entry is ridiculous. It's sending up thousands of files. Here's my results:

Total Files: 2519

Files Published: 2179

Elapsed Time: 18:04

How can we improve this? This is happening for me and my two coworkers on our Doc Team. We are publishing to an internal intranet webserver and we use that for documentation reviews from SMEs. We all share the same publishing location. We all upload our content the same way, by mapping a drive to the server and publish using the File System option.

We are also sharing projects using the open source Merucrial source control system.

Is RH getting confused because multiple authors are sending to one spot? Meaning if I publish to that location and if someone else publishes there, then the next day when I publish again, does RH no longer know that I've published there before and think it has to do all the files over again?

Thanks in advance!

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Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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February 12, 2013

Jared

No issue with what you say about the time but I don't think Rh is sending all the files, it just gives that impression.

You will see it running through all the filenames but it is checking the two files are synchronised and only uploading what has changed. However, that is more than the two topics. The index has changed and that affects a number of support files that also have to be uploaded.

Think of it this way. If you uploaded just what has changed using FTP it would be quicker. If you had to stop and manually compare the server and local versions, it would take longer and that is what Rh is doing.

I'm not sure about how source control works here. To the best of my knowledge the process takes what is there and then works as if it were on your PC, in other words it updates your copy. I'm not sure if multiple authors publishing rather than one person doing it is good practice. Maybe ask about the workflow in the source control forum.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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Jared Hess
Jared HessAuthor
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February 12, 2013

Hi Peter. Thanks for responding, but I'm currently watching the current target directory as I type, and it's clearly pushing up all the .htm files. I didn't change these and they have no relation to the files I did modify. The date modified for the htms in the publishing directory is my current date and time not some older date if it were only doing a compare.

I'll do some more testing.

Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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February 13, 2013

Let us know how that goes.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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