Thanks for the welcome Rick! Until this week, the last time I
used RoboHelp was 12 years ago, so expect plenty more questions :-)
The title tags WERE present in the original HTML files. You
can do the test yourself easily enough...just take any html file on
your pc, set the title tag different to the file name, and then
import it; you will see RoboHelp changes the title to match the
file name. I guess it thinks it is doing us a favour and in most
cases this is probably right...but not in mine.
Editing the title tags manually is a big problem because of
our workflow. The HTML files are created via a single source
workflow using FrameMaker and Mif2go: we just use RoboHelp to
create the final WebHelp after importing them. Being a single
source workflow means that we can expect the HTML files to change
multiple times during the project (outside RoboHelp). Importing
them into RoboHelp after each such change is trivial and what we
had expected to do. However, now it seems we have to do much more
than that--we will not really be able to set the title tags until
the final compilation and if it turns out not to be final (e.g
errors found or a new software build that we need to document in
our help) then we will have to re-import the HTML files and reset
the title tags all over again i.e. we would be breaking away from
single sourcing. But if the import behavior can't be changed, then
I guess we have no choice...
Cheers,
Adrian