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kevmeister68
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March 24, 2020
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RoboHelp 2019: Relative output paths for HTML5

  • March 24, 2020
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Our RoboHelp project is under source control and ideally we would like our generated output to appear in a folder relative to where the .rhproj file is located. Robohelp 2019 does not allow relative paths, which is a pain if multiple writers are working on the project (they have their own copies, and the project is under source control).

 

Any workarounds other than a directory symbolic link?

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    Correct answer Peter Grainge

    Project Name Folder

        Project Files

        Output Files (With sub folders for each output type)

     

    That keeps everything for one project in one place.

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    Alan5CA2
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    March 3, 2021

    I have the same problem.  I am going to post a new topic against this with a more includsive title. 

    Jeff_Coatsworth
    Jeff_Coatsworth
    Adobe Expert
    March 26, 2020

    No, what Peter is saying is that everyone who checks out the project will put it in the same relative location (NOT employing their unique user name) like:
    C:\Projects\<project_name_that_is_consistant_with_all_users>\<project_files>\ and \<output_files>\

    Doing it this way ensures that if anyone does any links to anything inside that <project_name> folder, they continue to work across all users and outputs. 

    Peter Grainge
    Peter GraingeCorrect answer
    Adobe Expert
    March 24, 2020

    Project Name Folder

        Project Files

        Output Files (With sub folders for each output type)

     

    That keeps everything for one project in one place.

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      kevmeister68Author
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      March 26, 2020

      Sorry, I am not understanding what you are telling me. As I said, we want to use Git to store our project.

      If user Kevin checks out the project to eg: C:\Users\Kevin\Help\PROJECT-NAME, and a second user Bob on a different machine checks out the project to eg. C:\Users\Bob\Help\PROJECT-NAME, and the folder structure under "PROJECT-NAME" is specified like you say, does that not require a relative path to refer to "Output Files\type" ?

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