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Anonymous

Question

Robohelp 8 generates html folder within the html folder

Forum|Forum|15 years ago
October 28, 2010
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Hello all,

I am having some issues generating the webhelp from Robohelp8. After I change something in the project (which is stored and checked out in clearcase) and re-generate the output, it automatically creates a new html folder within the original html folder and re-creates all the existing htm files, which make up the project. And then the start page searches and takes the files from the second html folder (within the first html folder). I tried adjusting the path, but it doesn't help. Any ideas why this happens?

Thank you!!

Regards,

Zita

WebHelp

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Amebr

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We had a problem recently with Visual studio source control and RH just recently

The project in source control was:

$/Documentation/Product1/main

In the xpj the path was one level up:

$/Documentation/Product1

So the guy thought he was working in the 'main' folder, but when he checked in/out, RH would add/get from the Product1 folder instead. So we had duplicated content in both places.

You could see if you have a mismatch there by opening the xpj in Notepad.

Amebr

Captiv8r

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Hi there

Out of curiosity, you *ARE* generating WebHelp, right?

Can you please post a screen capture of your Windows Explorer showing the project folder structure as well as the first screen of the Single Source Layouts dialog for WebHelp?

Cheers... Rick

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Anonymous

Hi,

Thank you for the quick response. Yes, I am generating a webhelp.

I will attach the screenshots.

On some occasions, when i set the path, it prompts me, that there already is a html folder and i need to chose a new destination. But, within this htm folder are all the htm files which should be overwritten when i generate the new output.

Thank you!

Zita

Captiv8r

Legend

Hi there

I'm seeing an HTML folder twice in your SSL recipe dialog. Once in the destination path to the WebHelp start page and again in the path for the default topic.

To be honest, I was curious about the HTML folder because it is something you had to have created yourself. Although RoboHelp will show you a folder with HTML in the folder name, it's really not a folder. More of a filter to list files of the .HTM file type.

What you have will need some sorting. It would appear you (or someone) elected to deviate from the default location RoboHelp suggests. And therein lies the possible issue. When folks do that, unless they know exactly what they are doing and why they are doing it, there are certain risks involved. You sometimes end up with file structures that may seem a bit disjointed.

I think I'd start by defining a new Single Source Layout and specifying a completely different location for the WebHelp to end up. Here's a shocking suggestion. Try to re-create what RoboHelp would have suggested. That will be something like this:

ProjectFolder/!SSL!/WebHelp