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Anonymous
August 20, 2012
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search and index functions don't work with merged projects

  • August 20, 2012
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Until this morning, the search and index functions in my RoboHelp project worked okay; I have one Main project into which I have merged more than three dozen sub-projects.  About an hour ago, I created a new sub-project and merged it into the Main project; now, it's as if the topics in my merged projects don't exist.

Any suggestions?

thanks,

Lon

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Anonymous
August 20, 2012

... just found another curiosity:  When attempting to add a topic to the Favorites tab, the .htm name appears in the "Current topic:" box at the bottom, as opposed to the topic name (i.e., name has under-scores between the words as well as the .htm suffix) -- this happens with the merged projects (except for the newly merged one from this morning -- its filenames appear in the Favorites box as they should).

does that help?

please help...

thanx,

Lon

Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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August 21, 2012

Let's deal with the first problem first and see what effect it has.

Did you add the new child to the parent's TOC?

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

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Anonymous
August 22, 2012

So when you open the merge you see all the content, it is just the search and index not working. This must be merged CHMs as you are talking about a Favourites tab so maybe your other comment is relevant. My understanding of merged CHMs is that you do not want spaces in file names, that could be the problem.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge


I made a random check of several child projects (including the new one) and the parent topic; all are set to "Use underscores in filenames" (Tools-Options, General tab).

thanks for your continuing support with this problem...

Lon

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