Merged Help
What's covered?Welcome to the mother lode for merged help! This is the page to which Adobe Technical Support point people. It is principally about merged WebHelp but in the Adobe 8 article, there is a section on merged Microsoft HTML help (CHMs). |
Merged Help Articles
Article |
Covers |
| The Reasons for Merging Help | Why you would want to use merged help. |
| X3 to Adobe RoboHelp 6 | The process using versions X3 to RoboHelp 6. |
| Adobe RoboHelp 7 | The process using RoboHelp 7. |
| Adobe RoboHelp 8 | The process using RoboHelp 8. |
| Merged Help with Nested TOCs | How to nest one child project's TOC within another. No longer a recommend method to merge help but if you have no option, this is how. |
| Splitting Projects | How to convert your existing project into separate projects. |
| Linking the TOC of one child to a topic in another child | How to include a topic from one child in another child's TOC. |
| Multiple Outputs | Phil Wells method of handling complex output combinations. |
| Toolbar Home Button | How to include a toolbar button that will bring the user back to the default topic, no matter where they are in the merge. Not so necessary since breadcrumbs were introduced but it may be a requirement. The method can be used for toolbar links to any other topic. |
| Merged Help with RoboHelp for Word | Although RoboHelp for Word is not designed to produce merged webhelp, it can be done. |
| Calling WebHelp | Various methods of calling WebHelp. |
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Topic Revisions
Date |
Changes to this page |
| 20 Jun 2009 | New article |