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August 8, 2013
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Why are breadcrumbs in my child project showing the (excluded) parent project path?

  • August 8, 2013
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I have a merged project in RoboHelp 9. When I am running just the child project from that child project's index.htm, I still show the breadcrumbs from the parent project, and users can click on that breadcrumb and access the parent pages, which they are not supposed to do.

Unfortunately, I had already set up the merged project in the structure Parent>mergedProjects>child 1 before I read Peter Grainge's piece about using the fake parent with the redirect to the childs. Is the only way to remove my parent project breadcrumbs for me to start all over again and set them up as he described? it doesn't make sense to me that the parent would be showing in the child's breadcrumbs.

Thanks for the help!

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최고의 답변: Peter Grainge

Take a copy of a child project and save it somewhere else. Then it will function as a standalone piece of help. While it is in mergedProjects it is seeing the other content.

I don't normally use child projects in isolation but I see what you are reporting and it's not the way I believe it used to work going back to when Noah was a lad.

I will take this up with Adobe but meantime I think moving the child will work as you expect.


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Peter Grainge
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August 9, 2013

Take a copy of a child project and save it somewhere else. Then it will function as a standalone piece of help. While it is in mergedProjects it is seeing the other content.

I don't normally use child projects in isolation but I see what you are reporting and it's not the way I believe it used to work going back to when Noah was a lad.

I will take this up with Adobe but meantime I think moving the child will work as you expect.


See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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Tatu_Mbili작성자
Inspiring
August 9, 2013

I have had this project working for almost two years now and before the last move to production in April, I do not remember this happening. The problem with what you suggest is that the parent project is actually in use as well. Having two copies of the child would seem to be redundant when they would both be on the same server: double the space for this small issue? Doesn't it also mean that the breadcrumbs would again be wrong if I set it up in your style so they would still say Home>Parent>Child1 where Parent would just be that blank page?

Do you know if this is the same in RoboHelp 10? I am in the process of converting to RoboHelp 10 and would like to resolve issues now, if I possibly can.

Thanks muchly for the help!

Peter Grainge
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August 12, 2013

I understand that, Peter. Perhaps if i diagram, you will see why I think moving to your structure might work better for me. The current structure is as follows:

Community Parent

     My Child

One set of users can click on the link to Community Parent and use the entire merged project and should therefore get the breadcrumb reading Home>Community Parent>My Child. However, the other set of users go directly to My Child and should not see Community Parent in the breadcrumbs as currently they can click on it and use the back and forward links to navigate through it, even though it doesn't appear in the (still child) TOC.

What I want to do is this:

Your Parent

     Community Child

     My Child

I've decided I don't care if there is another name in the breadcrumbs that would represent Your Parent, the (invisible) redirecting page. What I would like to do is then call Community Child through Your Parent, which could link to My Child so that the breadcrumbs there would read Home>Your Parent>Community Child>My Child. The other link would go directly to My Child so that I would then end up with the breadcrumbs Home>Your Parent>My Child, according to my dilemma. I think I may have to add a conditional build tag to the TOC entry in Your Parent to completely exclude any access to Community Child from within My Child but as long as it solves the problem in the breadcrumbs, I'm ok with that, it is more important for me to block access to Community from the second set of users.

If you don't think this will do what I want, please let me know. I've been trying to wrap my head around another way to accomplish this other than your first suggestion but if there isn't one, I will explain it and beg for the extra server space.


Download the demo from my site and experiment with that.


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