We have different user guides for different user groups.
These guides share many pages in common.
We would like to be able to seperate the guides into
different TOC's or projects (so the users see their own guide) but
don't want to link the pages as it would take them to a different
users guide. Is there anyway we can have multiple TOC's off the one
project or multiple projects sharing specific topics?
Hi Nikki and welcome to the RH community.
You can achieve this by using conditional build tags that you
can apply to a topic in it's properties. When you come to generate
the output. Just include or exclude the build tag in your single
source layout. For example if most of your topics will be in all
user guides only apply a build tag to those topics that are
specific to a certain user guide. When generating specify to
exclude the build tag for topics you do not need and all others
will be included. Hope this helps.
Hi Colum,
The conditional build tags works for displaying the separate
contents pages, but the pages for other guides are still contained
in the browser sequencing. Is there any way to prevent this
automatically without needing to do a separate browser sequence for
each guide?
Thanks, Nikki
PS. Sorry about the late response, they pulled me onto a
different project and now I'm back on.
Am I right in that you are using version RHX6? If think so,
as you mention applying a build tag to a book - you can't do this
with RHX5 which is what I still use! If you have applied a build
tag to a book, I would expect all the topics in that book to be
included or excluded (depending on whether you are including or
excluding that tag in the single source layout) from the output.
The exception to this is if there are topics in that book that have
another build tag assigned to them.
I think you will have to look closely at where you are
applied the build tags. If you right click on them in the Project
tab you'll see the list of topcs in the Properties. It sounds like
you assigned a tag to some topics and/or books and not assigned any
tags to other topics/books. If you use an exlcude tag statement in
your SSL, you will get all topics/books that do not have that tag
(i.e. those with other tags and those with no tag).
One other tip. It is generally accepted to exclude rather
than include build tags in your output.
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