First, unless you have RoboEngine, forget WebHelp Pro. It
only works on a server with that installed.
Second, the types are nothing to do with your index problem.
If you have merged your help correctly, then on opening the parent
help, you should see the topics, TOC and index for all the
projects.
There's a topic on my site about merging webhelp. Take a look
at that.
Are you seeing the TOCs for the child projects? That will be
a clue. You are creating the TOC in each child, not using the
parent TOC to point to the child topics?
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