Different Versions, Same Web Help File

Question

Good Moring.
I've found a topic which applies to this, however I'm having
no joy in implementing it - thus a new Topic.
Again I have a project with 500+ topics. Now I have
sucessfully created documentation for each Dept. eg Finance,
Operations etc...ising the
Topic Summary I want to simultaneously generate a version for
each conditional build tag, and the SSL. However if I choose
Finance, and go through the same procedure I'm ending up with a
Helpfile showing ALL the Departments on the Title page, but none of
the 'Buttons' work, and the Topic list is also missing. However
doing the same with no SSL obviosly I get the Web version complete.
Now a while ago I managed to create a version for each Dept,
so that if you changed the "Master" then the changes would be
applied to all the Deptments, but you'd still have the Departmantal
versions.
Also - say you had a page with buttons for all the
Departments, and you did a Finance version only that 'button would
be changed
Now I know I should've scribbled down how I did it, but I
didn't and I'm sure I found a topic that explained exactly 'How To"
, I can't find it on Peter G's website either.
So could someone out there point me in the right direction?
Thanks
Al.
IT Technician,
Muckleshoot Indian Casino

Answer 1

OK - one of the probs was that I needed to re-do all the
Conditional Build tags. Now I've done that only the dept required
is being built. So that's one prob fixed.
Now I can compile each Dept. into separate folders eg.
C:\facilities, c:\security etc etc.
It's not really a Windows 'security' issue.
What i want to be able to do is have a parent/child situation
(lets call all the Depts a child section, and the parent is the
Main build ie with everything ie the entire project.
Now it works fine if it's all split up into separate folders,
however now we run into the situation where if I change something
in the Parent, this won't be carried down the chain to the "child'
versions as they're in their own folders, thus effectively separate
stand-alone projects Not really what I want, as I'll have to change
each one in turn, and you can't compile them into the same folder,
even if I rename each 'title'html file RH seems to over write it...
Here's the general idea:
So the "Master Dept" screen has a row of buttons that looks
like:
Book/Topic A - for Engineering
Book/Topic B - for IT
Book/Topic C - for Marketing
Book/Topic D - for Inventory
Now, if we have a Group of Users, let's take Marketing, when
they go to that particular
'page', the only button they'll have available (and shown) is
the button for:
Book/Topic C - for Marketing
The IT Dept might have:
Book/Topic A - for Engineering
Book/Topic B - for IT
Book/Topic D - for Inventory
Here the button for Marketing is not displayed, but there is
a 'blank' line between B & D.
I'm sure I'm missing something obvious!
Al