Generating small sections

[Guest]

Hi Robohelpers, would really appreciate a moment of your time, pretty sure this won't be too difficult a question...

I have basically inherited a mess of a project, in Robohelp 8, which I am slowly trying to unravel. Unfortunately for me my experience mostly lies in Flare (sorry!) so I'm still finding my feet, both with the material and the method of creating it.

Though in the fullness of time, I will sort out the countless useless conditioning tags and half finished topics, in the short term I need to do an output of some of the topics. So basically my question is this: I need to make a small output from the files, incorporating about 10 out of over 400 topics. Is there an easy way to do this with a condition tag - if I were using Flare I would use the Include conditiong function while excluding the others, but I can't see a way to do this in Robohelp.

Thanks for any help.

[Peter Grainge · Accepted solution]

Create a tag called Exclude. In the Topic List select all the topics and then press the CTRL key and click on those you want generated so that they are not highlighted. Right click and select Properties. Apply the tag.

When you generate set the expression to exclude topics tagged Exclude.

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@petergrainge

[Guest]

Hi Peter - thank you for your quick answer, that should do the trick... just a quick follow up question, is there any function like in Flare that will "locate in Topic List" when you have a topic open - the  reason I ask being that there are numerous topics named identical/similar things and I need to make sure I am excluding the right files..

Cheers for any help..

[RoboColum_n_]

What I'd do is right click on an open topic and select Topic Properties. When you have identified the topic to tag, you can do so in the Advanced tab. Just select the tab in the topic level tag section.

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Colum McAndrew

[Guest]

That'll work. Thanks all.

[Peter Grainge]

Colum

Am I misunderstanding you? That will require opening 390 topics to apply the tag.

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@petergrainge

[Guest]

I've kind of used both these bits of advice - first I ctrl-a'd and used my new Exclude tag to tag every single topic as excluded. Then I did what Collum suggested, but in reverse - find the topic I want, go to properties, and removed the exclude tag from it.

All's well that ends well...