Adobe Community: Conversion from Robohelp 9 to Wiki format

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1. Jeff_Coatsworth,

Jul 10, 2012 11:52 AM in reply to JDHickey

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There have been some discussions on this topic here and on the Framers mailing list. It’s not an output format that RH does – need to get your wishlist vote in for it. Latest discussions I’ve seen indicate that it’s an imperfect import – the xhtml that RH creates doesn’t translate well to the newest MediaWiki formats. Confluence seems to use Word as its import mechanism – much pain all round.

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2. Captiv8r,

Jul 10, 2012 12:32 PM in reply to JDHickey

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Hi there

If a wiki is what you want, why are you using RoboHelp?

RoboHelp doesn't "do" wiki and anything it creates will most certainly have to be converted. Once converted, RoboHelp wouldn't be able to use it again and you would have to start over.

Cheers... Rick

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3. JDHickey,

Jul 10, 2012 1:14 PM in reply to Captiv8r

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Greetings!

I didn't want to do a wiki... the client said he wanted Online Help, so that's what I put together for him, But in the end, what he really meant was a wiki or a knowledge base. So I'm looking at the tools I have and seeing how I can deliver what he wants.

If you look at some of the popular apps, they all seem to have moved away from the traditional Help systems and moved towards the wiki or knowledge base type systems. Here are some examples that my client gave me:

https://support.skype.com/en

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/support/

http://help.opera.com/Windows/12.00/en/

If this is where the future of Help is going, then I would have thought that RoboHelp would want to offer solutions to meet those needs. I was hoping RH or Frame might have something I can use, but I'm learning that they don't, so I'm going to have to learn something new and learn it quickly.

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JD Hickey

Documentia Inc.

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4. Mark Southee,

Jul 11, 2012 2:10 AM in reply to JDHickey

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JD,

If you are looking at Confluence, the following Atlassian blog post may be of interest (I don't work for Atlassian btw)

http://blogs.atlassian.com/2010/11/technical_writing_wiki_single_sourc e_publishing/

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5. kgebert,

Jul 11, 2012 2:42 AM in reply to JDHickey

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Hello,

in our company we use RoboHElp 9 to generate our online help. At the moment, we're working on moving some of the content to a Confluence wiki. I did some investigation on the internet to find a plug&play tool that does the convertion of RoboHelp XHTML to Confluence storage format, but I found nothing.

Actually, I tried converting from RoboHelp to MediaWiki (and from that to Confluence) using a tool mentioned by Tom Johnson in his blog, but I didn't succeed with this. Now, we'll use Word (which has lots of drawbacks, but still ...) to migrate our content.

But this is a one way street, in my opinion. After migration we'll work on the content in Confluence and never in RH again.

The purpose of moving to a wiki is to use the wiki functionality such as collaboration on topics, comments, ...

BTW, the refence links your client gave to you, don't seem to me very wiki-like. Look here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Documentation+ Home for a sample wiki documentation.

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