Hi, Trip (et al),
I had a niggling feeling that I wasn't clear enough, so,
without going into too much extraneous detail:
I work in a financial aid office, and all our transactions
are done online. Our software package has numerous forms to fill
out (e.g., FAFSA, student address info, awarding info, verification
info, etc.). So, I have to document all the help topics for these
forms. These go back to 2004-05. As you can imagine, our RoboHelp
file has grown to be quite immense. To alleviate the problems of
further growth, I looked into creating the 2008-09 files as a
separate project and merging them into the current RoboHelp.
However, I thought it best to set up a test
“Help” package first. So, I created a project I called
“MergeTest” and two other projects, “Academic
Year 2004” and “Academic Year 2005” to merge into
it.
So far, so good. Now for the problem: Our topic pages are
created with a format that has a “Contents” listing at
the top of each page, usually about four or five items that are
hyperlinked to sub-sections farther down on the page. In one of the
“merge” projects these work just fine; in the other,
they don’t work at all, exhibiting the behaviors I described
earlier (the warning about links to external files, page cannot be
found, etc.).
I’m beginning to wonder if it’s worth the
trouble; maybe we should excise a couple of the earlier years to
some safe place to trim the current project and help make it more
manageable that way?
Lon
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