Show Merged TOC Option in Merged WebHelp

[robogirl62]

I am experimenting with merged WebHelp for my company's disaster recovery plans. There is a master company plan and then each department has its own dept plan. I have set up the merge using instructions from Peter's site. I'm running Robo 8.

When I generated the parent project, I did not select the "Show Merged TOC in Child Project" option, but all of the TOCs are still displaying in the merged output anyway. Is that how it's supposed to work? Eventually, I may want them to all display, but right now, I don't. I only want the TOC for the main child project to appear in the output. Is that possible?

See attached two screen shots.

[Peter Grainge]

You are misunderstanding the "Show Merged TOC in Child Project" option. What that does is allow a child project to be opened with the full TOC, not just the child TOC.

Merged help is designed to show all the TOCs of the child projects that are present. I don't understand why you would not want the child project TOCs to show. How is the user going to access those topics?

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[robogirl62]

I have one topic in the master plan called "About Department Plans" where

I have links to the dept plans. I'm trying to baby-step this as I

gradually "bridge" the separate department plans into the master. Is there

something that I can  tweak in the output files as an interim measure

until I can get the separate projects fully merged?

Jodee Walker

Technical Writer, Information Technology

Germania Insurance

Phone: 979-836-5224 ext 2116

Fax: 979-277-1959

[Peter Grainge]

I guess you could simply not create TOCs for the child projects.

I suggest you don't include your email address in posts unless you love spam.

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[robogirl62]

Well, I hope to have two different outputs - the merged help would be distributed on a CD, but I also plan to publish the separate WebHelp projects on our SharePoint intranet site. When they open the individual projects from SharePoint, they would only get that specific project with its own TOC. Would creating a separate TOC just for the merged output be feasible? If so, how would I go about doing that?

[Peter Grainge]

Then you don't want that box ticked. The way it works is you generate all the outputs.

- If you open the start page of the parent, you will get all the TOCs showing as one.

- If you open the start page of a child, you will get just that child's TOC, unless you have ticked that check box when you will get the whole lot.

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