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Hi there
I'll be happy to fill in the missing detail for the options you mentioned.
These pertain to the process of Publishing your WebHelp. And that process is vastly different than Generating. But so so many users confuse the two.
You have a RoboHelp HTML project consisting of Source files. Perhaps they are in the following location:
C:\Projects\MyProject
You Generate WebHelp and that process modifies each of the Source files. They end up in the Output location. Assuming the path I listed earlier, that location would be:
C:\Projects\MyProject|!SSL!\WebHelp
Now the Publish process comes into play. The Publish process copies the files from the WebHelp output folder to another location. Perhaps a server. So here is what those options do.
Normally, the first time you publish, each file is copied from the Output Folder to the Server. As each file is copied, it is logged in a file that tracks dates, times, file name, etc. The first time you publish, ALL files are copied.
Subsequent publishes then only copy across the files it senses have been changed. So as it is copying, each file is compared to the list. Is it newer? No. Don't copy. So the first publish process may copy perhaps 1500 files. But the second time you publish, maybe only 20 files are actually copied, as those are the only ones that changed.
Republish all says to ignore the list and just copy ALL the files again. You may wish to choose this if perhaps your IT folks advised you a server crashed and suggested checking all your links to ensure they are all working after they restored from a backup. Fuhgeddaboudit! Don't waste time checking links. Just republish all and you will know you are good to go.
Check for Deleted files doesn't do what you may think it does. You might see that and think that if you deleted a folder of files from your project, RoboHelp will also clean those files off the server. Nope The key thing to remember with this is that The publishing process will never ever delete files off the server. If you need files removed, you will need to do that manually.
So what does it do? It slows the publishing process down. If that option is enabled, not only does the process check to see if the files are newer and need to be copied, it also checks the server to ensure the files still exist! If one has gone missing, it will be copied over. Even if it's not newer.
Hopefully that helps... Rick
I'll be happy to fill in the missing detail for the options you mentioned.
These pertain to the process of Publishing your WebHelp. And that process is vastly different than Generating. But so so many users confuse the two.
You have a RoboHelp HTML project consisting of Source files. Perhaps they are in the following location:
C:\Projects\MyProject
You Generate WebHelp and that process modifies each of the Source files. They end up in the Output location. Assuming the path I listed earlier, that location would be:
C:\Projects\MyProject|!SSL!\WebHelp
Now the Publish process comes into play. The Publish process copies the files from the WebHelp output folder to another location. Perhaps a server. So here is what those options do.
Normally, the first time you publish, each file is copied from the Output Folder to the Server. As each file is copied, it is logged in a file that tracks dates, times, file name, etc. The first time you publish, ALL files are copied.
Subsequent publishes then only copy across the files it senses have been changed. So as it is copying, each file is compared to the list. Is it newer? No. Don't copy. So the first publish process may copy perhaps 1500 files. But the second time you publish, maybe only 20 files are actually copied, as those are the only ones that changed.
Republish all says to ignore the list and just copy ALL the files again. You may wish to choose this if perhaps your IT folks advised you a server crashed and suggested checking all your links to ensure they are all working after they restored from a backup. Fuhgeddaboudit! Don't waste time checking links. Just republish all and you will know you are good to go.
Check for Deleted files doesn't do what you may think it does. You might see that and think that if you deleted a folder of files from your project, RoboHelp will also clean those files off the server. Nope The key thing to remember with this is that The publishing process will never ever delete files off the server. If you need files removed, you will need to do that manually.
So what does it do? It slows the publishing process down. If that option is enabled, not only does the process check to see if the files are newer and need to be copied, it also checks the server to ensure the files still exist! If one has gone missing, it will be copied over. Even if it's not newer.
Hopefully that helps... Rick
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