How to publish to RH Server 7 without RH

Question

The situation is that we have outsourced our help content
creation to a remote professional writer. She uses RH to create the
content. We have licensed RH Server 7, but we can't seem to find a
way to publish her content to our server, using the server itself.
Other products do not require purchasing the authoring tool
in order to manage publishing. Does anyone know how we can publish
without needing RH?

Answer 1

What you want can be accomplished (if I understand
correctly).
Scenario - Publishing WebHelp Pro Manually:
If hers is the only RH 7 client license, she could publish
WebHelp Pro locally to her hard drive, just as she no doubt does
now to do her own QA. The path will look something like this:
C:\MyProjectFolder\!SSL!\WebHelp_Pro
She would then zip up the WebHelp_Pro output folder and its
contents (not the whole project) and send it to you or your
RoboHelp Server administrator (as an email attachment or via FTP?).
You can do the QA by reviewing it on your local hard drive, then
send it to the web admin for placing on the live server. There is
no need for you or the web administrator to have a RH 7 client
license for this to work. The QA is done by simply viewing the
output locally.
When the administrator receives it, the WebHelp_Pro output
folder should be renamed to whatever the project name is (e.g.,
MyProject). The admin would then copy the folder to the path of the
directory where RoboHelp Server projects are kept: Here is a
typical physical path on the RH Server machine (substitute the
number "24" for whatever your server number is)
C:\Program Files\Adobe\RoboHelp Server
7\Servers\24\Projects\MyProject
Finally, the web administrator would use the RoboHelp Server
Configuration Manager application (only the admin has this, not the
author) and use the Refresh command so that the newly copied folder
and contents will show up on the server. The project can then be
viewed by the end user.
So, this does not require any additional licenses for the RH
7 client (other than the one she already has).
(One more thing. You want to make sure she is using RH 7 and
not a previous version.)
Thanx
John