Can a RoboHelp guide be referenced/linked in another RoboHelp guide?

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June 8, 2012
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I will be using RoboHelp 9 to create user guides for some upcoming projects in my company. Some information will be the same among all departments but then each department will have specific information in the guide.

Is there a way to create a guide with all the general information that everyone will use then create a link to that guide within each individual department guide?

Thank you.

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Willam van Weelden

Inspiring

Hi,

What kind of output are you creating? If you are using WebHelp, I think that there are two ways to go:

1. Place the guide on a main place and add a link to that URL in your projects, just like you would do with an external URL.

2. Create the guide as a separated project. Then use that project as a merged project in your other projects. You only have one source for the guide and you use that in all your other projects. The advantage of this method is that search results/index/toc can be merged.

For more information on merged WebHelp projects, see http://www.grainge.org/pages/authoring/merging_webhelp/merged_help.htm

Greets,

Willam

chelluvsGodAuthor

Inspiring

Thank you for your answer.

However, I will be creating the guide in FlashHelp. Does that make a difference?

Michele

Willam van Weelden

Inspiring

I'm not a FlashHelp user, but WebHelp and FlashHelp are very alike. As far as I know merging projects works the same in WebHelp as in FlashHelp. Though I hope a FlashHelp user can confirm this.

Greets,

Willam

Jeff_Coatsworth

Community Expert

Look into "snippets" for re-using content

N

namedujour

Inspiring

As I recall, I abandoned snippets because you can only use them within one project. They don't work between child projects in a merged project. If they do, please let me know how to get them to work because my tests failed so I moved on.

As a result, what I do is just link to the topic in the other child project. This involves right-clicking the link to the TOC topic in the published project, and copy/pasting the path in Properties - not elegant, but it works.

Captiv8r

Brainiac

Hi there

Adobe is really good at teasing us. What I mean here is that RoboHelp 8 introduced us to a feature we know as the "Resource Manager". But it really wasn't useful. Then with RoboHelp 9 it was vastly improved and worthy of considering. (One can only hope that with RoboHelp "next", that it will finally offer an ability to sync topics. But I digress.)

Anyhoo, if you are using RoboHelp 9, the Resource Manager allows you to easily synchronize Snippets across different projects.

Cheers... Rick