How do I UNmerge indexes when I can't find the subproject icon?

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September 26, 2012
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I inherited a huge project in RoboHelp HTML 7. The index in this project is merged with the index in another project. I need to UNmerge the two indexes, but I cannot find the subproject icon in the TOC pod. Is there any other way to UNmerge the two projects - especially the two indexes?

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Peter Grainge

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Merged Help proper must have the child projects listed in the TOC of the parent project. Anything else must be a home brewed merge.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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Anonymous

Is there any way to completely wipe out the merged index and start from scratch? I do not see a child project in the TOC (nor the Index) pod, and I've been trying to resolve this for days and days. The project is convoluted, but the people who created it have left the company.

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Anonymous

Hello again

Sorry you are having the issues. Normally when a merge is in a TOC structure, you see something like this:

But it sounds like you aren't seeing the icon. So I'm guessing that RoboHelp has somehow become lost about knowing it has a merge going on. In that case, try right-clicking in your Project Manager pod and chosing Explore. That should open your project location inside Windows Explorer. From there, you should see all the project files listed. See if you find a file there with the extension .HHC. This will be an XML based file that contains your Table of Contents data. Open that inside Windows Notepad, then click Edit > Find. Search for the following string:

merge=

If you find it, that section of the TOC structure is what is saying to merge the other file(s) and needs to be removed. Remove the area beginning with <item name... up to and including </item>

Close and save the file and try compiling or generating again.

If you DON'T see this section, we need to do more sleuthing. But let's see what you find with this exercise first.

As for clearing the Index, you can try just clicking to select the first entry, then pressing and holding the delete key as you watch the entries disappear. If there are so many that this will take too long, you might then want to just clobber it by locating and opening the .HHK file in the project location. Open it using Windows Notepad, selecte everything inside and delete. Then copy and paste the code below into the file and close it and save it.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

</properties>

</index>

Hope this helps... Rick