RoboHelp Publishing

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November 15, 2010
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I just stumbled across this discussion because I'm having trouble with RoboHelp wanting to republish every topic even if I only change one, so the time required to publish is long even for simple changes. There's a statement here that RoboHelp only updates changed items by default, but it seems like the first thing that happens when I generate WebHelp is that RH clears the output folder and starts a fresh copy. How exactly does RoboHelp decide what to publish, and is there a definitive way to make sure it only uploads modified topics?

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Anonymous

P.S. I'm using RoboHelp 8 without the server software.

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stevenjs

Inspiring

It's the default, I assume, as they say, though I continue to republish all, great excuse to get up and get a coffee ;-)

You can test the proposition by reviewing the page with changes after using the default upload. Should be there, and all else the same.

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Anonymous

Hi Kevin

The default setting for publishing (until you elect to change it) is to publish only new content. You have to specifically enable the Republish All feature. Indeed that would likely slow you down!

The way it works is that on the first use of publish, of course, everything must be copied. That process may take some time. As long as 15 to 20 minutes or longer depending on your project and connection speed and whatnot.

Perhaps you make a change to only two files. When you publish, only those changes are copied to the server. So publishing should only take a few seconds. Note that depending on what the changes were, you may see more than two files copied. But the publishing process should be really quick!

Cheers... Rick

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I just tried it again, making sure I did not check "republish all", and RH is still clearing the output folder and republishing the entire project to WebHelp/HTML. It's true there is some time savings at the "Compiling" stage before that, but the actual WebHelp output is still taking a long time for even a simple change to one topic out of many. A co-worker says that may be unavoidable just as it would be for generating a PDF, but I was hoping the software would be smarter than that for publishing the web content.

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