RoboHelp dropping mapped CSH IDs

Question

RoboHelp is dropping about 20 topics out of 1024 from from
the whcshdata.htm file that are mapped from my project CSH .hh
file. Changing the numbers did not help. Redoing the file names did
not help.
Anyone heard of this happening and whyt? Do I have to start
over and import into a new project and remap all of the files to
get a new database? This is scary because it took us several days
to discover this was the problem and there is no rhyme or reason
for it dropping the mappings.

Answer 1

I am back from vacation. No, the WebHelp build files are
dropping CSH topic files mapped properly from the HH file.
WebHelp uses two files for CSH (schdat_webhelp.htm and
whcshdata.htm). On my bulid yesterday there should have been 125
mapped topics. There were 104 in those two files. It choked on a
whole series of topics that had the same 28 character initial text
in their ID. Abbreviating the IDs (28 down to 3 characters) passed
those items. Is there some sort of limit on the number of
characters in a mapped ID? Other failed IDs where much shorter, yet
they were dropped. Sometimes just changing the mapping number
passes the ID. Sometimes it doesn't. It is terribly frustrating.
In other occurances where the same topic is mapped to
multiple IDs it would drop the additional mappings or in some cases
change the case for the file name to lower case for the additional
mappings, making them not work (Unix server) while leaving the
initial entry upper case.
This makes every build an exercise in frustration and back
checking, with manual editing of the two WebHelp files to get the
CSH to work. I hope that explains it better.