Do I need Robohelp Server or Source Control? and RH installation

So, I'm still comparing authoring products and trying to filter down requirements.
I've been reading more about RH and have come across RH Server and source Control and wondering exactly if they are needed.
I'm the single author in the company, most likely publishing web help, or html help outputs for use online via our web application.
Is there any need to implement Server or source control, as far as I can see Server gives me reporting abilities and statistic reports, neither of which I really need. Is there anything else about RH Server that would be beneficial?
Also, source control, this is more needed when there are multiple writers accessing the same content at the same time so that problems dont crop up? Correct?
Also, how difficult, or time consuming is the installation process of RH on a single machine. Is it a simple program installation, or will I need to install server-side databases or anything else that could require the IT team to get involved?
Thanks for your help.
Nick

Hi Nick.
You have got it pretty much spot on. RoboHelp Server is mainly only required if you want the additional reporting functionality. There are some other minor differences between RoboHelp and RoboHelp Server but that is the main one. RoboSource Control is a application to get source files safe and backed up and is designed for a multi-author environment. It adds a layer of complexity for a single author environment although you can still use it if you wish. Personally I'd just ensure you have your source on a local drive (a key requirement of RoboHelp) and backup to a network drive.
The installation of RoboHelp is painless. It is just like any other application with a wizard to guide you. It has various options that you can choose, one of which is whether to install the RoboSourceControl client.
Click here for further reading on the difference between RoboHelp Server and RoboSourceControl.
Read the RoboColum(n).

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My company uses perforce. I'm purchasing a couple copies of TCS5, one for me in California, one for writer colleague in Europe. I'd like to use Perforce for version control/backup, but use Dropbox for RH asset sharing and sync. Is this workabout? I'm guessing that the Dropbox/sync mechnism won't work if one or both of us has not checked out a file that needs to be (automatically via sync) updated. ("Not checked out" = file is in read only state.)
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-Kurt

Hi Kurt
Have you tried the scenario with RH 11?
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Help needed on weblogic portal source control under CVS

Hi,
Is that good or bad to put all the portaldomain under CVS control? eg.
my portal domain directory structure under development environment is
like the following:
c:\myportaldomain --|
|--beaApps
|---portalApp
| |---------myportalApplication
|
|---portalApp-project
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directories "myportalApplication" and "portalApp-project" from
c:\myportalmodule into corresponding sub-directories under
c:\myportaldomain, before I can do any development and testing. also,
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need to copy those files back to c:\myportalmodule. I tried to use
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Hi Rene,
Thanks for the very helpful info.
I think maybe I have a idea how to set up the dev environment now,
basically I will organize the CVS repository and weblogic directories
in the same way.
c:\myportalmodule--|
|---myportaldomain
| |---beaApps
| |---portalApp
| | |---------myportalApplication
| |
| |---portalApp-project
|--src
|--docs
|--build.xml
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configure a new domain named "myportaldomain" in c:\myportalmodule
directory. Since the CVS and his domain have the same directory
structure, so when he do the fully checkout, the files will actually
be put into the right place, and he can checkin his files easily.
one annoying thing is that, since there are other files (such as
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c:\myportalmodule\myportaldomain, which are not in CVS repository. so
everytime, we do a checkout, CVS will issue the warnings saying those
files are in CVS repository. Please advise is there any potential
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"René Zanner" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
Hi,
we did a similar thing, but we put the whole beaApps directory in the CVS, because
we had more applications and also modified some things inside the tools application
of BEA...
With CVS you can do a 'partial' checkout of your module, that means you do not
need to copy the folders back and forth, but you can check in and update directly
in you domain directory.
The command for a partial checkout is:
cvs co -d <name of destination folder> <module name>/<path to your folder>
Once checked out here, you can work with the files like in the complete checkout.
HTH,
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[email protected] (mouse) wrote:
Hi,
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my portal domain directory structure under development environment is
like the following:
c:\myportaldomain --|
|--beaApps
|---portalApp
| |---------myportalApplication
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and "portalApp-project" directories.
However, I want to organize the CVS directory structure like the
following:
c:\myportalmodule --|
|--src
|--docs
|--"myportalApplication"
|--"portalApp-project"
So this means: after I checkout from CVS, I need to copy the two
directories "myportalApplication" and "portalApp-project" from
c:\myportalmodule into corresponding sub-directories under
c:\myportaldomain, before I can do any development and testing. also,
if I make some changes on c:\myportaldomain, and I want to checkin, I
need to copy those files back to c:\myportalmodule. I tried to use
directory softlink, but it windows NT just offer shortcut, which
doesn't work.
Can somebody give some education how to integerate the weblogic portal
with CVS source control systems?
Thanks very much

Do I need Robohelp server?

Hello,
I'm hoping someone can lead me in the right direction. I'm new to Frame 10, Robohelp, and AIR help.
I've been asked to generate online help based on the Adobe AIR format. I was able to generate the local version (installed on PC) and have the context-sensitivity work.
However, my designers are now saying that they do not want the Adobe AIR help to be installed on every client machine - they only want the help installed on an Oracle Weblogic server, and to have the client machines call the help from the Weblogic server. This server is not connected to the external Internet - the app. I'm documenting is uses a server-client architecture.
I'm not interested in collecting any data on how the help is used, commenting, moderation, etc (maybe one day, but not right now since I have a lot to learn first!).
Here are my questions:
1) I'm using TCS 3 - do I also need Adobe Robohelp server to implement this solution?
2) Do I need to generate browser-based AIR help or can I instead generate the locally installed version?
3) In this solution, can I still include a link within the AIR help to a PDF version of the help?
Thanks in advance for your help!
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1) I'm using TCS 3 - do I also need Adobe Robohelp server to implement this solution?
No and it would be of no use as there is no Pro version of BB AIR help.
2) Do I need to generate browser-based AIR help or can I instead generate the locally installed version?
Yes to the first part and no to the second. The locally installed version can only be installed locally, not on a server.
3) In this solution, can I still include a link within the AIR help to a PDF version of the help?
I haven't tested but to the best of my knowledge you can.
With all that said, I would generate a very simple output and have your developers test it.
If I have understood you correctly, your app is installed on the local but stores its data on the server. With that setup, local help would be more appropriate. You don't have to use commenting but if you want to later, it is possible with local AIR help but not BB. Have you seen the AIR pages on my site?
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I was wundering if Jdeveloper can parse a xml file and and show the results in a grid for a xml file just like the webservice control.
like here
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If I'm understanding what you are aiming for then the URL Data Control can do this for XML files if you provide the XML Schema for them.
See this sample:
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Visual Source Safe or RoboHelp Source Control

I have never used VSS, but I have used RH Source Control. I can't find any clear cut answer to my current question. Do all the features like securing help based on security roles defined by the company, Merge Help and Multiple Authors per project/topic work the same in VSS or is this just a feature of RH Source Control?
My current client has VSS and I'm not sure they would want to purchase RH Source Control unless I come up with a really good reason for this.

Hi there
Many are confused by the subtle differences. You are absolutely correct in your statement of:
VSS and RH Source Control are just version control, nothing more, correct?
But your initial post comingled things by asking:
Do all the features like securing help based on security roles defined by the company, Merge Help and Multiple Authors per project/topic work the same in VSS or is this just a feature of RH Source Control?
The features you asked about apply to RoboHelp Server. RoboHelp Server is a product that is totally different from RoboSource Control or VSS.
I'm guessing here that maybe you unintentionally stated RoboSource Control and meant instead to say RoboHelp Server?
RoboSource Control = Source Control and is included with RoboHelp at no additional fee.
RoboHelp Server = Separately purchased Adobe software that must be installed on a computer that is also functioning as a Web Server.
RoboHelp Server provides merging. You just publish any number of outputs and the server handles merging things to present to the end user as a single, unified system. But keep in mind that basic RoboHelp is capable of creating a Merged output that will function in the same way.
RoboHelp Server 8 provides an ability to "secure" or restrict viewing of certain folders of content by restricting access to specific users. Keep in mind that the same thing is possible on any web server and has been for years. RoboHelp Server 8 probably provides some easy interface in the application that allows you to do it without getting a web developer involved. I'm not 100% sure on that. Hopefully my buddy John Daigle (the RoboHelp Server GuRu) will chime in here to clarify.
RoboHelp Server 8 also provides a search function that allows indexing and looking inside Word and PDF files. Then again, basic WebHelp output also offers this capability.
Reporting and tracking. RoboHelp Server 8 provides nice pretty graphs and charts so that you can see that topic A was opened 500 times and topic B was opened twice. Therefore topic B must not be useful so you can delete it. (just being silly here) Then again, you may also use Google Analytics to obtain the same information with a few lines of code.
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We have a project in version control that we have been using forever, since 2003 or so and many versions of RH. Now that we have upgraded to 9, this project will open the first time in version control and work normally. Once you close the project and attempt to reopen from the starter screen, it opens just great, just not in version control. The files are still set to read only. I have done this several times and the only way i can work on my project in version control is to act like i am opening a project from scratch, then it needs to overwrite all of my local files with the server files. It would not be so bad but I am 3000 miles away from the server and 13 hops plus a slow firewall on the other end. While this has never been a problem in the past it is a big problem because it takes hours for all the files to download and overwrite my local files.
This only happens with RH9 and Version Control 3.1. RH8 works no problem. So, I don't know if this is a RH9 starter problem or a Source Control Problem. Maybe I will make a similar thread in the RH area. I'll wait to see if I get any useful hits from this one first.
It is very strange, I had RH9 open for several days because I was afraid to close the project for this reason and yesterday I published for the month so the heat is less right now but today, it opened with no source control. If I go to Source Control the only thing i can select is put project in source control. That is how it got into source control after converting to RH9.
We have another project that seems to open from version control normally but we can only save topics in HTML view. No useful answers to that topic after a week.
Got any ideas???
I have tried different folder names, different paths, etc.
Thanks,
dv

Ok, here is a wierd one, I used the add to version control icon in the menu bar, It already knew the path so I figured I'm the only one who has been editing these files for the past few days so I clicked add to version control. It added it. I closed and reopeded and still had the same files checked out. Closed, checked in all, then reopened and it is working in SourceControl. Strange that after opening from source control and closing that you need to reopen and tell it to put the project into source control. Obviously some flag is not getting set somewhere. This might help others having problems reopening source control files.
dv

Windows Explorer integration for Source Control Explorer

Hi together,
we've setupped an Online TFS to organize our Powershell Scripts in our Team. After that we've installed the Source Control Explorer for checking items in and out. From within the Source Control Explorer this works flawless.
Some time ago i've worked with TortoiseSVN for Source Control and there were a Windows Explorer Integration which was super easy to use for making new local repositorys, checkin and checkout, is there something similar for TFS? Because we only write Powershell
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Hi Rolf,
Thanks for your post.
You’re using VSO Account?
What’s the version of your VS? if you’re using VS 2013, you can install the
TFS 2013 Power Tools on your client. If you installed the TFS 2013 Power Tools on your VS 2013 client, after you mapped and got the source file to local workspace folder using Source Control Explorer, you can right-click on the local workspace folder and
select Team Foundation Server menu to perform check in/out.
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Visual Studio 2013 slows down + crashes when using Source Control features.

I have spent two full days trying to resolve this issue but no luck so here we go,
I have created a project using Visual Studio Team Foundation Server plug-in in the past. Later on I switched to
Microsoft Git Provider.
Now when I connect to that project in the Team Explorer and double click on the solution to work on it locally it somehow changes the plug in to Microsoft Git Provider automatically and of course I can't
Commit/Commit and Push since I receive following error in the Team Explorer,
An error occurred. Detailed message: Failed to open directory 'C:/Users/.../AppData/Local/Application Data/'
Manually changing the plug-in to the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server
results in a broken Team Explorer as below,
With Settings leading to an empty pane, and also a warning in the Team Explorer's Changes page telling me the message below if I click on Pending Changes...
Microsoft Git Provider is not the current Source Control plug-in. Change Plug-in
And manually selecting the solution from Solution Explorer, right click and
Add Solution to Source Control, leads to never ending hour glass and (Not responding) visual studio.
New Projects
Creating a new project is straight forward, unless I "Add to Source Control" is checked. If so, again never ending process if Microsoft TFS plug-in is selected in the tools and eventually me Ending the Visual Studio task. And a VERY long process
(40+ mins) if I have chosen Microsoft Git but that finishes successfully rather.
New TFS project from Team Explorer
If I create a new project in my Online Web Studio
Click on Open with Visual Studio Link => Opens and connects to a my newly created TFS in team explorer.
Clicking new in Team Explorer under Solutions to create a new solution and bind it to this Repo
leads to straight crash of Visual Studio and restarting attempt of VS.
So I really can't use Source Control from visual studio other than cloning GitHub's existing repo's on Visual Studio and Committing my current Microsoft Git managed projects.
I have attempted
Repairing Visual Studio (no luck in results)
Devenv.exe /setup (no luck)
Trying to scrap the SCC info on my solution then at least it won't get picked up by source control then I can Check it in as a new project. (no luck and the solution picks the Microsoft Git upon opening it by clicking on the .sln file.) I have followed
these steps in this stack overflow answer.
And lots of mucking around like removing my workspaces almost Thousand times and putting them back, binding and etc.
I am really stuck on this and it's holding me back from staring a new project (which is problematic using Adding to Source Control) and unfortunately is dependent on the old project (which is developed under Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Plug-in which
is throwing tantrums)
Would like to hear you pro-s input on this
Using
Visual Studio 2013 Community edition (recently switched from Pro to Express to Community)
Windows 7 (64-bit)
Git tools
Git windows installation
Nuget Package manager
Visual Studio Log File
http://filesave.me/file/50620/log-txt.html
Mehradzie

Hi Mehradzie,
Based on the description, seems you're working with Git team project in Visual Studio Online(formerly Team Foundation Service). I'd like to know whether you mean Visual Studio Git command tool as the plug-in, and if you're trying to create solutions/projects
with Visual Studio and add them to the created Git team project.
From the screenshot, you're not connect to the Git team project by using Team Explorer. To work with Git team project locally, you can follow the instructions as below:
Connect to Git team project by using Team Explorer, after that you might install Git tools if you connect to the team project for the first time
Clone the remote Git repository to a local git repository and set the path to local git repository
Create a solution and select Git source control, also saved to the local path of the local git repository
Select your branch, and then click "Changes" and Commit the changes
Click "unsynced commits" and push the commit to remote git repository
You can also refer to the links below for more information about getting started with Git in Visual Studio Online.
http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/get-started/share-your-code-in-git-vs.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2013/01/30/getting-started-with-git-in-visual-studio-and-team-foundation-service.aspx
If you still have any other concerns, please elaborate more details about your scenario. Thanks for your understanding.
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Is RoboHelp Server the solution for us?

Hi all,
I'm trying to figure out whether RH Server is the solution for us. I've seen a few similar posts in the forums, but none that really answer my specific questions. I'm hoping for feedback from someone with experience in RH Server, who is perhaps in a similar situation to us.
We are a software development company, creating desktop software for PCs. We have three main applications, and approximately 20,000 users. I am the company's (only) Tech Writer.
Currently I provide documentation (user guides) to our clients in the form of the good ol' CHM file. I develop these in RH8. Each of our applications is bundled with an installed CHM file which users access by pressing F1. I'm sure you're all familiar with this process. Our users run our software on their own systems, completely independent of us - there's no connection to us whatsoever. However, they all have Internet access, as it's a requirement for them to be able to use certain functionality within our applications. Hold that thought.
I also write Knowledge Base Articles in MS Word, as PDFs, which users access via our web site. Internal to our organisation, I provide KBAs and other such material for our Technical Support staff. These aren't available/accessible to the public. I write these in Word because they need to be sent around to a team of reviewers from time-to-time, and whilstI'm the only person with RH installed, everyone has Word.
What I'm hoping to achieve with RH Server is this:
Do away with the old CHM files that our users have. They're just awful. I'm hoping that in future, when our users press F1 from within our applications, they will be taken to a corresponding page on a web site or AIR page similar to what the Adobe Help looks like when we access it from RoboHelp. Forgive my ignorance if I've used incorrect terminology. That way they'll always be reading the latest Help content, live, online, instead of what I wrote last time we sent a product update out. I imagine our programmers will have to edit the functionality behind the action of our users pressing F1 in our applications. Has anyone done this? Are there any issues we should be aware of? What happens if our users don't currently have Internet access, for example - is it possible to call a local version of the Help instead, if this is detected? Has anyone done this with a similar number of users to us? We could well have 100s of users trying to access the system simultaneously.
Gather feedback from users. From what I understand, we'll be able to use RH Server to see which Help topic/content is being viewed, and also receive feedback from users. Can anyone give me feedback on their experiences with this? Any tips/hints/issues I need to be aware of? Is it possible for us to determine which users accessed which content? Remember, the idea is that users should be able to access this content by pressing F1 - I don't want them to have to sign in every time they need to access our Help system - it should be seamless to them. So, I'm wondering how it would be possible to track user usage without making them sign in. This is important to us because some of our content is region-specific, and it would be handy to know if users from those regions are actually accessing the Help content that relates to them.
Host our internal documentation on the same server as our public documentation. Is it possible to host all of our internal, private documentation on the same RH Server, making it available to our Tech Support team (and other internal teams) only? I imagine we could do this by password-protecting it, but I want to ensure that the public don't even know it exists. ...and our Tech Support people would not be impressed with having to sign in every time they wanted to access their Knowledge Base. Any tips here regarding locking down / restricting access to content?
A quick note about collaboration:
Currently, although the Help menus are developed in RH, the KBAs and other PDF documents are written in MS Word. I send them around to a team of reviewers who add their comments/edits and send them back to me. From what I understand, this is something I can do with RH10 - export PDFs and send them around for review, combining the results later, at which time I give them a final review before publishing. Have I understood this correctly? Does RH Server play a part in this process? Can I use RH Server's feedback capabilities as a mechanism for my review team to make edits/comments? I guess I'm trying to get an understanding of how sophisticated the RH Server feedback system is. If I can use RH Server to have the team read/review documents, it'll save me having to manage a bunch of Word documents that I email them. It'll also minimise the chance that a redundant document gets distributed by mistake - something that can occur because people use their locally-saved documents I emailed them earlier, instead of the finals.
Thank you.

Hi, symmetricalMan
Let's see if I can tackle some of these "inline". There are a lot of moving parts to your system (you're a busy guy!)
I only have time for a few of these. Perhaps Colum McAndrew and others will chime it with their experiences.
>>they will be taken to a corresponding page on a web site or AIR page similar to what the Adobe Help looks like when we access it from RoboHelp.
It would be WebHelp Pro in the scenario you mention (not AIR Help).
By "taken to a corresponding page" you are referring to Context Sensitive Help which RoboHelp Server does support (including your F1 scenario).
>>What happens if our users don't currently have Internet access, for example - is it possible to call a local version of the Help instead, if this is detected?
Hmm. You could either package a plain WebHelp (not Pro) output and distribute for access on a share drive. The detection thing would be up to your developers. Come to think of it, AIR Help does have a potential alternative here which might be worth looking into. Obviously, there would be two systems to maintain. I'm not up to date on it, but you'll find info here in the online help: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/robohelp/robohtml/WS81F63111-6ACF-4a02-B2B2-461FEBFA8093.html
>>.we'll be able to use RH Server to see which Help topic/content is being viewed, and also receive feedback from users.
Actually, the "feedback" is anonymous (no names are collected.) You can however, create "Areas" and analyze the traffic on topics according to sub-sets of your users.
The feedback is not direct from the users. In other words, RoboHelp Server (at least for now) does not support Commenting (as AIR Help does). So Feedback Reports are derived from the end-users "surfing" your site and collecting their search terms verbatim to get an idea of what they are searching for in order to improve your content.
>>So, I'm wondering how it would be possible to track user usage without making them sign in.
RH Server Sites do not have to be "Protected" by authentication. It is your choice. You can have some sites (called Areas) that are authenticated and some sites that are not authenticated, all on the same RH Server. RoboHelp Server uses a database and can authenticate users (by setting up protected "Areas".) However, my networking knowledge is limited and you would have to ask someone else about "persistent logins" etc.
>>content is region-specific, and it would be handy to know if users from those regions are actually accessing the Help content that relates to them.
Yes, you can do this. This is where RoboHelp Server can be used to create "Areas" for different content to be delivered to different audiences.
>>Is it possible to host all of our internal, private documentation on the same RH Server,
Yes you can. However the Tech Support sign in scenario question would have to be answered by someone else. It's hard to know from where I sit.
>>RH10 - export PDFs and send them around for review, combining the results later, at which time I give them a final review before publishing
Yes, this workflow would seem to work for you. However, RoboHelp Server plays no role in this review one way or the other. There are many alternatives for sharing the PDF which is described in the documentation.
See #6 on this page:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/robohelp/robohtml/WS1b49059a33f77726-2db1c75912bc47baaf8-7ffb. html
You should also download the Adobe RoboHelp Server Reviewer's Guide which also has videos embedded.
http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/robohelp/9/AdobeRoboHelpServer9_ReviewersGui de.pdf
Hope this helps
John Daigle
Adobe Certified RoboHelp and Captivate Instructor
Evergreen, Colorado
www.showmethedemo.com
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Flashbuilder 4 and source control?

In my work environment, we work with multiple source code branches of the same code base.
For example, we often have a private branches for ongoing development, and a trunk branch where everything is integrated. During the course of any one day, we need to switch between working on one branch or the other.
With other toolsets, this is easy - project files are checked into source control, and then checked out of whatever branch and built with no modifications.
Is there a way to do this with Flashbuilder4? The prevailing wisdom here right now is that each time I want to work with a new source code branch, I have to import files from the checked out source directory, set some project settings, and rebuild.
Is there a better way?

I'm with Tom here. I don't understand your project setup in your workspace and in your repository.
Since you said you're new to Flash Builder, are you aware of Subclipse? It's a plug-in for Eclipse that integrates SVN. Here are the instructions to download and install http://blogs.adobe.com/jasonsj/2010/03/installing_subclipse_in_flash_builder_4.html.
Jason San Jose
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Running Xcode without install(from source control)

I am managing a build lab and have several products/branches to provide service to and I would like my build machines not to be specialized to any one product/branch.
The scenario I would like to have is that souce and all tools needed to build it are checked into source control and just sync and build with some prep/env setup before hand via script.
This is very doable with Visual Studio and many other tools. Is it possible with Xcode? Has anyone gotten a scenario like this to work?
Thanks in advance for any help/answers.

Does this snippet from the readme shed light...
Installation
The Xcode and iOS SDK installer provides several options for configuring the installation from the “Customize...” button:
•          Essentials: contains all required components of Xcode, installed by default in / Developer or another directory of your choice, including external volumes.
Xcode Toolset: installs the core Xcode IDE, the Mac OS X SDKs, and many other developer tools. This is a required package and cannot be un-selected.
iOS SDK: contains the iOS frameworks, tools, and iOS Simulator. If you do not agree to the iOS license agreement, this package will be unavailable. If un- selected, Xcode will install with only the Mac OS X SDKs.
•          System Tools: installs system-level tools for performance analysis, and for system monitoring from within the Instruments application.
•          UNIX Development: command-line tools such as compilers, linkers, and build tools. The components are always placed in /usr with only one version installed at a time.
•          Documentation: checked by default, Xcode will download developer documentation in the background for offline reading, and automatically download documentation updates as well. If unchecked, the documentation will be read from the web instead of the local disk. The download setting can be changed after install via Preferences.
Throughout this document <Xcode> refers to the path in which the Developer Tools Essentials components are installed, which defaults to /Developer. You can have multiple
versions of the Xcode toolset installed. You can move or rename the <Xcode> directory, but must not alter its internal structure.
NOTE: Only one version of the System Tools and the UNIX Development components can be installed on a computer at a time. The last installed set of these components replaces any previously installed set.

Help for robohelp server

Hi,
I'm sure it's user error, but ... I'm evaluating Adobe
Technical Communications Sutie (which I've never used before)
because we'd like to publish help files out to a web site with an
existing app running in a .Net environment. I've searched
everywhere, but can't find the documentation that tells me:
1. do or don't I need RoboHelp Server ( I think so, but I'd
like to see why in writing)
2. the actual process to publish out to the web
Can anybody help direct me to where this documentation might
be?
Thanks,
zjillian

Hey, zjillian and welcome to the forums!
In the case you outline, I don't believe you would need the
RoboHelp Server *necessarily*. It's optional and depends on whether
you would like to use the features provided by the server. You can
read this article that explains more about the server.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/robohelp/articles/rhserver.html
If you don't need these features, then publishing as plain
"WebHelp" to support a .NET app would be fine. Either method can
use the .NET API (also optional) which is included for free with
RoboHelp along this path on your computer.
C:\Program Files\Adobe\RoboHelp 7.0\CSH API\RoboHelp.NET
The actual process to publish depends on your particular
destination and method. For example, sending them via FTP to a web
server directly, or placing them on a LAN Share drive where the web
administrator can pick them up and place on the web server.
Check out these two online help topics for more details. To
access them, paste these two topics in the online help search box.
WebHelp Publish dialog box
New Destination dialog box
Thanx
john

Refreshing Database on Source Control

I've been posting quite a bit lately about my challenges with Source Control-- RoboSource. I would like to completely clear out the database, remove any links between my Project and RoboSource, and start totally over. I've tried this several times and followed some of the resources on how to remove a project from version control, but it doesn't seem to really 100% disconnect and when I try to reconnect to version control it seems to reconnect to the previous database (even if I delete everything in the database) and; therefore I'm still having the same issues. Everything I try seems to only gunk things up even more, make things run more slowly, etc. I asked my IT department to clear out the database and they said this was a version control issue. How should I go about a new start? I'm looking forward to becoming a source control guru and helping others as I've recieved so much feedback and help.
Thanks,
Sleepless over Source Control

I'm hoping that I've figured it out. I noticed that even though I had deleted the files from the Root Node ($) the files weren't being deleted from the Raw Root (*). Not that I really fully understand what it means, I think I've successfully cleaned out the Database! I'm slowly becoming more comfortable with source control, but I still am struggling with one basic concept and I've seen it discussed on other threads-- this has to do with the C:drive and Shared drives.
If add the project to source control from a location on my C drive, then open the project via source control onto my coworkers c:drive (all of the files are then copied to working folder on the c drive), are all of the topics copied to source control and therefore do not need an additional copy of the the project on a shared drive? I'm not sure if that makes sense.

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