Breadcrumb placeholders in a multi authored project

[Guest]

Good afternoon Robohelp community!

Today's puzzle sees a master and child project in a mulit-authoring environment. Both projects use identical copies of the stylesheet and master page in which two authors may work on seperate parts of the project at once, then use the merged project feature when publishing.

The master page in both the master and child projects' contains the breadcrumb placeholder, which has been labled ABC123.  The master is generated, and the child is generated and published.

When reviewing the combined output  however, the breadcrumb for the child version has reverted to the inbuilt placeholder Home.  The master version remains as it should be.

e.g.

Master   ABC123 | Main Topic | Sub Topic

Child      Home | Main Topic | Sub Topic

While the easiest fix is to simple use the Home place holder, I would rather use my own. 

Has anybody else discovered this issue, and have a solution?

Cheers

[Peter Grainge]

I have not seen anyone else post this problem.

In a merged setup, the home page should take you to the default topic for the merge. Set the child project's breadcrumb Home name to ABC123 and it should work.

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[Guest]

Thank you for your response.  As I mentioned, the master page in both the master and child projects' contains the breadcrumb placeholder, which has been labled ABC123.

Unfortunately setting both master and child breadcrumb placeholders has not worked.

Cheers

[Peter Grainge]

With you now. Is this merged webhelp and what version of RoboHelp?

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[Guest]

Robohelp version 9.  We have mulitple merged projects. 

I've pretty much experimented all mulitple projects. Ultimately I've renamed each breadcrumb placeholder 'Home', since that works becuase I've not got time to do the job of an Adobe tester.

[Peter Grainge]

I'm not an Adobe tester but my test suggests they did do their job.

I just tested a merged webhelp setup and it seems to be working as it should.

Where you see Home above, you can type in anything you want. I added Peter to the parent and it then appeared in all topics regardless of project. That is the same logic as skins. Open the parent and all topics appear in that skin. Open a child and its skin is used.

When I added a label, that only appeared in topics from the child where the label was set. Thus some topics had a label and others did not. I could have set all the projects with the same label or I could have defined a different label for each project.

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[Guest]

Thank Peter. For some reason is not working as it should on this end, but i'll continue to play around with it.

[Peter Grainge]

Try it with the merge demo that you can download from my site. It's a simple set up making it easy to try things like this.

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