How do YOU organize images in RH8?

The whole project manager is in bad need of a redesign. It's confusing at best.

We keep images in a folder just under the root level (parallel with the highest level of topic folders). It's a mixed blessing: I get pretty tired of scrolling up to that folder every time I insert an image, but at least I know where to scroll to!

There is a rationale for this - we keep the source bitmap files for our .gif images in a subfolder of the \image folder so that we can easily check them into source control. Screen captures are sometimes not easy to recreate, and keeping the originals lets us go back, edit the image, and make a replacement .gif. Because these source files aren't officially in the RoboHelp project (they just live in one of the folders), it's a good idea to know where they are.

I don't think our method is inherently better than others. One thing I would warn you about is to put the image files in a folder, not up at the root level of the project. Images get added frequently, and our source control doesn't like it when we mess with the root too often.

Hi,

This can be a bit of a confusing area. The project manager shows HTML folders and Image folders in reality these are different views of the same thing.

When we add a Gif (say) we import into the same folder as the topic. We do this by importing from within a topic rather than import the images then add them to a topic. That way images and parent topics are kept together. The only exception is comapny logos etc used in all topics which we'd keep in a special designated folder. If topics and images are kept together like this they are easier to import etc.

Now the catch..

Although you've imported an image into topic x in a particular folder you'll only see them in the Images folder in the project manager not in the HTML documents.

Also note..

You can drag and drop in project manager to the various sub folders in the images folders area to re-organise if you want.

Hope that helps