Updating JUST ONE topic in linked FrameMaker book

[Guest]

I am trying to figure out exactly how the Update, Force Update, and Update All picks work in the TCS. It seems like everytime I make even a small change in a linked Frame doc, I slect Update to synch my help system and then end up losing all of the manual work I have done in RH!!! :-(

Please Help!

[Guest]

When you update, all the RH HTML files created from the imported FM are overwritten. Everytime!

[JainVivek]

If you have, say, 30 chapters in a FrameMaker book, you can update the content in RoboHelp by each chapter. That is, you don't need to update the whole book when you want to update the chapter. Use "Update" for one document and "Update All" for all FrameMaker documents/books in RoboHelp project. However, you cannot Update by HTML topic in RoboHelp. For example, if a chapter in FrameMaker is converted to 15 topics in RoboHelp, you need to update the whole chapter.

There is another powerful feature in RoboHelp which helps you preserve the topics in RoboHelp from any update. Right click on the FrameMaker document (chapter in a book) and select properties. In one of the tabs, you can select topics which you don't want to get updated when you update the Chapter. This feature is powerful however should be used with caution.

I hope this helps