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Tatu_Mbili
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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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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 13, 2013
  1. You have redirected to the startpage rather than the default topic.
  2. Compare the URL with one I created. I can absolutely guarantee the method works. Post back if still stuck.
  3. How are you creating the breadcrumbs? Using a placeholder or via the SSL option? Please post a screenshot.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge


Sometimes I know what I'm doing in RH and sometimes I'm just the biggest null. I apologize for that in advance!

1.    Don't think my brain is wrapping around the concept of startpage versus default topic but I got it working! Yayyyyyy! Thanks!

2     My link path is ../MyChild Premium/New_MyChild/ice_cream/Have_an_IceCream.htm, which should be the same as yours, although nested a bit deeper. Is it the space in the first folder name? If so, how do I go about changing the folder name so there is no space? Global S&R in RH and then just rename the folder?

3.     I just ticked the Add breadcrumb links box in the Generate/Publish procedure. Can't post screenshot as it is proprietary at the moment.

Lol, I'm getting there! Gonna be plenty of celebration when this works, tell me where to send the champagne!

Helen

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