RH2919 Classic merged project. new merged sub project not showing in TOC when running HH.EXE

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December 24, 2024
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Hello, I feel stupid. This must be the 3th or 4th year I need to do this. Succeeded up to now.

I created a new project and included it in the main project (as luggage file).

in toc view, created new merged project. got this

that 6.11 has no hhc extention. Tried different approaches, but got not a different result. When creating the output to MS compiled help, the project does not show in the TOC.

Strange...

any clue someone?

best regards

Olivier

Correct answer Jeff_Coatsworth

You following Peter's site? https://www.grainge.org/RoboHelp/Merged_Help/Merged_Help.htm

Peter Grainge

Community Expert

Baggage files are NOT the way to merge projects. It will make the content available but they will be separate projects and not merged. Search for example will not be across all the projects.

You seem surprised that the child projects need to have their own TOC. What the merge does it bring all those TOCs into one TOC, it merges them into one, that's the point. I am not understanding how you would expect the topics in the child projects to be included in a TOC if you don't create one. Am I misunderstanding you?

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Olivier ToeboschAuthor

Inspiring

Hello Peter, you're right about the bagagefile. it is not enough

It is a succession of not followed steps that had me trapped:

no TOC on the subproject (stupid me)

Once fixed, compiled, copied to the main project (in my case the root of the project directory) it is enough to choose the new merged project icon in the toolbar.

for me this works

thx for your assistance, Olivier