Hi,
I am using RoboHelp X5 with Visual Source safe 6.0. The
problem is more to do with the file or folder organization (I
think).
Basically we have folders setup in VSS set to our local
folders each author has on their machines. I joined my company a
year ago and noticed the mess of folders and files outside topic
folders (sub-folders) on my local drive. Then I learned its because
when we update certain project pages then check-in the project, the
pages/files update to the wrong location, meaning they update to
the main Project folder rather than the topic sub -folders that
Visual Source safe is set to. Therefore we are forced to copy these
updated pages outside the subfolders on our local drive and paste
to the appropriate sub/topic folders, then Check-in so that VSS
picks up the updated pages to deploy.
I noticed that certain projects within RoboHelp have folders
in the Project manager tab under HTML files and these projects
usually update to correct location when checked-in, but they also
have separate deployment paths for each sub folder within Visual
Source.
I can't figure out if the problem is with the deployment
paths or the folder setup in RoboHelp. I tested a project
deployment by creating a folder within RoboHelp to reflect the ones
on our local drive then I dragged a topic in this folder, updated
saved then checked in to realize the update was picked up in VSS
but when I deployed the page, the links on the this page wouldn't
work. Keep in mind the deployment settings for this particular
project are the same for all the sub-folders. Hence I have no idea
what the problem could be. Please Help. I would appreciate a quick
solution that doesn't keep our links and projects online from
working.
Thanks