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Tatu_Mbili
Inspiring
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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Correct answer 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.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

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Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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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

@petergrainge

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Tatu_MbiliAuthor
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!

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Tatu_MbiliAuthor
Inspiring
August 12, 2013

Download the demo from my site and experiment with that.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge


Downloaded the demo, I see the logic and structure. However, whether I launch your generated project from the Parent folder or any of the child folders, the breadcrumbs look the way I want mine to look: Home>Child1>child1 instead of Home>Parent>Child1>child1, which is what those in my project look like when launched from the Child1 folder. What am I missing in what you said above?

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