RH9: 2 Authors, 1 project ; Translation involved. Best practices?

[M-Eve]

Hi!

I'm a tech writer that's also a translator. I end up writing topics and translating them, along with my colleague who also writes topics. We both have RH9, and we need to work on the same project. Most of the time, I'll translate the topics he wrote. Right now, we are copying the English topics in a "French" sub-folder, where we overwrite the text when translating. That way, we make sure the layout doesn't change; only the text does. However, I am wondering what would be the best way for us to be able to work in the project simultaneously. We have a Sharepoint Server, so perhaps we could use it to check out the topics we are working on, and then check them back in when we're done. But I'm not sure how this would work. Hints, anyone?

Thanks for your help!

Marie-Eve

[Peter Grainge]

See if this helps.

With two of you working on the project, if that is simultaneously I am assuming you have source control in place.

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[M-Eve]

We haven't started working simultaneously yet...Still putting the structure in place. We have access to SharePoint and RoboSource for source control. But I'm not even sure it's possible to control RH sourcing with Sharepoint. Any suggestions?

[Peter Grainge · Accepted solution]

To the best of my knowledge Sharepoint cannot be used as a source control system for a RoboHelp project. I will leave others to state their source control preferences. Mine is to avoid it!

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[M-Eve]

And how would you do without Source Control?

[Peter Grainge]

We don't have more than one author on a project at any one time. The big projects are split and created as merged help.

We backup up creating a daily zip file that is automatically put on the network for company backup procedures to pick up.

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[Peter Grainge]

There is a new discussion on Linked In as well. Haven't read it yet but looks relevant.

http://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&discussionID=71688460&gid=2381149&comme...

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