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Anonymous
July 20, 2010
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Sourcesafe and RH8

  • July 20, 2010
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Hi everyone,

Currently we're looking into using multiple authors for a merged web help project.

So we have

Front end "master" project

Slave project 1

Slave project 2

etc.

We want to be able to check out each slave project to a different author then when they're all finished check them back in so lead author can compile the whole project. It seems our options are either source safe which our developers use or robosource.

Does anyone have experience of using source safe? If so what problems have you encountered if any please?

We are of course creating and editing locally on a real folder off the C drive. The source safe et al are for storage only...

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MergeThis
MergeThis
Inspiring
July 20, 2010

You're assuming an extra step that might not always be needed, which is the hidden beauty of merged WebHelp.

That is, the parent project does not need to be "run-time" generated when changes are made to the child project(s). Each of the child project output folders are actually self-contained entities, and the parent project "pulls up"  the current output at viewing time.

If you haven't already, you absolutely want to read http://www.grainge.org/pages/authoring/merging_webhelp/merged_help.htm (Peter Grainge's excellent merged Help tutorial).

(Oh, and I used SourceSafe with RH seven years ago (with RH X5), and the process was just as efficient as using RoboSource Control is today (with RH8).)

Good luck,

Leon

RoboColum_n_
RoboColum_n_
Legend
July 20, 2010

We used to use SourceSafe but recently migrated to SubVersion. We only used Sourcesafe because this is what our developers used and we migrated with them when they moved to SubVersion. We never had any problems with SourceSafe but we did not integrate it with our RH projects. We simply checked out the source in SourceSafe, made the changes in RH and checked them back in in SourceSafe. You can if you wish do the check in/check out directly from your RH project in the same way as RoboSourceControl.

  The RoboColum(n)   @robocolumn   Colum McAndrew
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Anonymous
July 20, 2010

Thanks folks,

Colums apporach is what I had in mind. Also what about Documentum? meant to ask if anyone had used it with RoboHelp..

MergeThis
MergeThis
Inspiring
July 20, 2010

Whichever product you use, do not add these RH project files to the Source Control database:

.cpd

.hhp

.ldb

.pss

Good luck,

Leon

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