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robogirl62
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November 12, 2009
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Show Merged TOC Option in Merged WebHelp

  • November 12, 2009
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I am experimenting with merged WebHelp for my company's disaster recovery plans. There is a master company plan and then each department has its own dept plan. I have set up the merge using instructions from Peter's site. I'm running Robo 8.

When I generated the parent project, I did not select the "Show Merged TOC in Child Project" option, but all of the TOCs are still displaying in the merged output anyway. Is that how it's supposed to work? Eventually, I may want them to all display, but right now, I don't. I only want the TOC for the main child project to appear in the output. Is that possible?

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Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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November 12, 2009

You are misunderstanding the "Show Merged TOC in Child Project" option. What that does is allow a child project to be opened with the full TOC, not just the child TOC.

Merged help is designed to show all the TOCs of the child projects that are present. I don't understand why you would not want the child project TOCs to show. How is the user going to access those topics?

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robogirl62Author
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November 12, 2009

I have one topic in the master plan called "About Department Plans" where

I have links to the dept plans. I'm trying to baby-step this as I

gradually "bridge" the separate department plans into the master. Is there

something that I can  tweak in the output files as an interim measure

until I can get the separate projects fully merged?

Jodee Walker

Technical Writer, Information Technology

Germania Insurance

Phone: 979-836-5224 ext 2116

Fax: 979-277-1959

Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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November 12, 2009

I guess you could simply not create TOCs for the child projects.

I suggest you don't include your email address in posts unless you love spam.

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