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October 12, 2009
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RH 7: Share topics across multiple RH files?

  • October 12, 2009
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I'm working on an application with over a dozen separate modules.  Each of those modules has its own RoboHelp file, but there are 6 or 7 introductory topics that we really need to share across all of the modules.

Currently, we're copying and pasting those pages individually into each file/module.  As you can imagine, when we need to update one of those introductory topics it's a real pain cascading those changes through all 12+ files.

Is there any way that we can store those files in a central location but share them within all the other files so that they appear as the first topics in each file's table of contents?  (As in the picture below--the Getting Started topics would be the shared topics, but they would appear to be an organic part of any given module's Help TOC.)

Thanks so much!

(PS, if the solution is "Buy RH 8, that would be good to know, too.)

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    Captiv8r
    Legend
    October 12, 2009

    Hi there

    This would seem to cry out for creating a merged setup. In a Merged setup you have one project that is the "control" or the "master". Then you have the subordinate projects that are added. So each of the individual projects could be made a master, then you would merge in the smaller project with the common files.

    You create a Merge by inserting a reference within the Table of Contents. And there is no need to acquire 8 to do it. You have been able to create Merged projects for several RoboHelp versions now.

    Cheers... Rick

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    Inspiring
    October 13, 2009

    Click here for Peter Grainge's excellent tutorial on merged WebHelp (complete with sample projects you can download for testing).

    Good luck,

    Leon

    October 13, 2009

    Thanks for the link, Leon--as a relatively new user, I'm particularly glad learn about good RH tutorials!