Hi Steve
Believe it or not, Adobe is hard at work on a new version of
RoboHelp to make an appearance some time next year. Maybe there
will be a feature that allows different ways of applying
conditional tagging. If you want to be sure this suggestion reaches
Adobe, you can click the link below and submit a Wish Form.
Click
here to visit the Wish Form
Note that if topics are excluded, they don't appear in the
output. So essentially, if you apply conditions to all topics
inside a folder and all are excluded via the build expression, that
folder is effectively moot.
Sincerely... Rick