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Hmmm, your project structure does look a bit odd. But I'm guessing you may not be understanding what you see in the RoboHelp application.
When you link to other files, you really should have them inside the project. That way the links will still work once you place the content in its final destination. So I suppose this is the first issue. Where will the files ultimately be when the end user accesses them? If you are creating WebHelp, normally you would copy them to a Web Server. If you are creat
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Hi there
Normally you want to avoid using absolute links and relative links are preferred. This makes me wonder if perhaps you are misunderstanding them.
A relative link looks like this:
* In the same folder: sometopic.htm
* In a different folder: ../SomeTopic.htm or Folder/SomeTopic.htm or ../SomeFoder/SomeTopic.htm
Generally speaking, relative links are more resilient and more reliable as a result.
Cheers... Rick 
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mollyid wrote:
Thanks for the feedback. I understand the relative and absolute link differences, but when the entire file is moved to the Web Help SSL folder, the link set up automatically by RBH using the hyperlink function is no longer valid (they are referring to a relative link in the main root folder, that is not copied to the SSL folder). Does this make any sense?
Sorry, but it doesn't really make sense. Think of each RoboHelp project as an island. On the island are many roads. These are like your hyperlinks, connecting one page to another. If you pick the island up and move it across the sea, the roads don't change, right?
Where you are losing me is your mention of "when the entire file is moved to the Web Help SSL". First off, there isn't a single file with WebHelp. There is a swarm of files. In fact, if you have perhaps 20 actual HTM topic files, you will end up with as many as 220 or so actual files to make the system work. The files are then copied to a web server. But you are talking about "moving" the files to the Web Help SSL. Do you possibly mean "Generating"? So after you tell RoboHelp to Generate your output the links are failing? If so, where exactly are the links? Topic to topic? Topic to external web page? Where?
Cheers... Rick
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Hmmm, your project structure does look a bit odd. But I'm guessing you may not be understanding what you see in the RoboHelp application.
When you link to other files, you really should have them inside the project. That way the links will still work once you place the content in its final destination. So I suppose this is the first issue. Where will the files ultimately be when the end user accesses them? If you are creating WebHelp, normally you would copy them to a Web Server. If you are creating a .CHM, it will end up as a single file that is normally copied to the end user's hard drive.
Cheers... Rick
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