files for compiling the help

[Guest]

Real newbie to Robosource 3.1. We have our WebHelp project in Robosource with several technical writers working in the same project. We all have the project on our hard drives and we did this by opening robohelp and then selecting the lock icon at the top of the Open page and downloading the project from Robosource. My question is, do I use the files on my hard drive to compile the help. It is my understanding that when I open the project in RoboHelp, Robosource looks to see what files are the most recent and then downloads those files to my hard drive.

If that's the case then I am thinking I should compile the help from my hard drive as long as another user isn't in the application. Is that correct?

Thanks.

[Gravenstein]

That's more or less the way we do it. We designate a "build owner" for each project. The build owner is responsible for downloading the latest files from RSC and generating output. With multiple writers on a project, having a single build owner is helpful, especially if there are merged child projects involved in the mix. The build owner knows what to do, and has everything configured correctly on his/her machine.

It probably doesn't matter if other writers are in the project, except that their changes wouldn't be reflected in the generated output.

I think it's possible to set up command line generation that grabs the latest files from RSC, but I haven't tried to do that yet.

G