Conditional Help without using build tags?

I am not a real technical person, so if I mess up on my
explanation - Sorry!. We have a one software package that can be
used 2 different ways depending on a system configuration. I
suggested using conditional build tags in order to have the correct
help files populate for the 2 different configurations. Howver,
they do not want 2 different help files. They want one help file,
but want it to pull different help topics depending on they system
configuration - kind of dynamically. So, for software 1a, only pull
10 topics, and software 1b, pull those 10 topics, plus an
additional 2...but all out of the same help file. Is that even
possible?

Welcome to the community.
Which output are you producing? If CHM, someone else will
have to address that. But for WebHelp, the system developers are
going to have to do some work here either way. For the scenario
where you have only one set of help files, you could put the 10 in
one subfolder within the help folder and the other 2 in a separate
subfolder. The developers (or web admin) could restrict permission
to the subfolder containing the 2 files based on the user's
configuration.
The problem with not using conditional tags is that if you
want those 2 topics in your TOC or index, they'll show up whether
the user has rights to see them or not. You'd have to be careful
not to link between the 10 files and the other 2; otherwise, the
user who has rights to just the 10 will get permission errors if
trying to follow a link to the 2. And I imagine that results for
the 2 will show up in search results no matter who is doing the
searching.
If you've got only 12 topics in your project, the cost
doesn't seem very high to use conditional tags and have two sets of
help output, but that's just my opinion.
Hope this helps,
Ben

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