Getting rid of conditional text

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September 6, 2012
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Hi. I inhereted an HTML help project that has WAY too many conditional text tags. The project spans several major releaes and a few Service Pack releases. What I need to do is get rid of the conditional text and have a clean, whole help project for the next release. Is there any way of consolidating the conditional text into the project, so we are not working with a project that has 8 conditional text tags?

I'm not even sure where to begin. YIKES!

Thanks for your help!

Lynn

HTML

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RoboColum_n_

Brainiac

Hi Lynn. If you delete a Conditional Build tag from the pod it also deletes all the references to it. If you want to reuse some of the existing tags, you could just delete and recreate them.

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LynnAtOpenSpanAuthor

New Participant

Really, I’m just trying to consolidate the thing. All these conditional text tags are confusing. How does RoboHelp handle a topic that contains say, three conditional text tags. One of the tags is named, “Do not include in build.” But on the same topic, there is text tagged as 5.1, and 5.2. If I delete the Do not include in build tag, will it just delete the text, or will it delete the entire topic? I’m a little nervous doing this.

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LynnAtOpenSpanAuthor

New Participant

Deleting the tag does not delete the content, just the reference to to the tag. If you are nervous, take a backup first.

The tags work when you generate the output by filtering out content. By the sounds of things you've got content that should never be output and some that is only relevant to a particular build. The expression you use when you generate your output controls what is used.

You are exactly right. Unfortunately, I’m not all that fluent in RoboHelp. I understand the expressions used in the project, I’m just not sure how to consolidate the thing. How would you approach this?

I really appreciate your help on this.

Thanks

Lynn

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