Dynamic Help File To Change Brand & Product Name. How To Do Please?

[HowardTaylor]

I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction. We have a help file that is created and we have companies that want to OEM (white label) our product. One of the challenges is that the help file thus needs to become dynamic to update brand and product name references. Can someone tell me how can we go about this in RoboHelp please. The program that initiates the help file can obviously write to a file so possibly this is an option.

Thank you in advance for your consideration, assistance and guidance.

Kind regards

Howard

[Willam van Weelden]

Hi,

What version of RoboHelp do you use? (7/8 | Word/HTML) What kind of output do you use? (HTML Help, WebHelp, Air, etc)

Greet,

Willam

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[HowardTaylor]

William

We are currently on RoboHelp8 and primary output is WebHelp.

Thanks

Howard

[Willam van Weelden]

Hi,

Letting an application edit files to change names and terms looks like an ugly solution, apart from any difficulties that arise (such as rights on directories and files). I think it's best to create a separate output (one project, multiple webhelp outputs) each specified for the client.

To do this, I can come up with three usefull features:

1. CBT's: look into conditional build tags. With these, you can keep topics/text/etc out of certain outputs.

2. Variables. In RH8, you can create multiple sets of those (same variable, different value) and use the separate sets for separate outputs.

3. Multiple style sheets. In RH8, you can select which style sheet you want to use for your topics when you create the webhelp. You can create a separate style sheet for every different brand and use those style sheets when you output your files.

Hope this helps,

Willam

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