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.

MergeThis

Inspiring

Ah, I get it now about the publishing step, which does improve the workflow some. Plus now I can see that a simple text change resulted in updates to 12 project files, so as you said that's not really so simple. (It still took several minutes to generate and publish a one-word change, but that's better than several hours.)

FYI, the Help system notes about publishing are rather sparse as far as actually completing this step is concerned, and don't discuss the option for doing that at the end of the Generate process. Some explanation in Help of the issues raised in this thread would be useful, since without that it's not obvious why the publish step is even relevant.

In the RoboHelp 8 help file, under Generating Help and printed documents > Generate, view, and publish output:

The "Generate output" topic starts with: "You generate output to your local hard drive."
The "Publish output" topic starts with "You can publish output for WebHelp and FlashHelp projects. After you specify an output location, publish the output whenever needed."

The material in these help topics seems to provide enough explanation.

In addition, the fourth, and last, page "at the end of the Generate process" is titled WebHelp Publish - WebHelp. You must have missed that one.

Good luck,

Leon

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