Pointing RH9 project at new linked FM files without a complete rebuild

Seems simple but we can't figure out how to "point" an existing RH9 project with linked FM files to a new set of FM files.
As a background, our practice is that with each new version, we copy all FM files to a new directory and create a new version of the FM book and files. Hence, after this process our RoboHelp file points at the old files and we'd like to easily update this without completely rebuilding the project and all settings.

Try deleting the book file from RH and relinking to the new location.

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Hi,
I'm using RH 10 with linked FM 11 files to create a WebHelp project and this is what happens when I do an update or force update of a linked file in the RH project:
After the update, the topic that contains updated content gets deleted from project TOC in RH.
After the update, any Map IDs assigned to the topic that contains the updated content are deleted.
Can someone please advise how to update a linked file without losing TOC entries or Map IDs?
Thanks a bunch!
Gabe

HI Gabe,
You will want to link the TOC from FM in your conversion settings, and set the map id's via TopicAlias markers in FM.
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how do I import the new html file without doubling the bookmarks that are already on my firefox which is running on my netbook. a lot of the folders are the same.

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David - wanted to let you know that your suggestion worked...well kind of
I found out that the issues were mainly with my computer - regarding the original post about intermittant fuzziness.
About the files not importing/folders showing up but not the files...
I opened an original project. When I did that, the files within the folders magically...were present.
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I had to get the original project into the newly created project so the easiest way that worked was copying and pasting the original project into the new project timeline.
But then, the files didn't show up again after I did this...
So I forget what I did because I went through a ton of attempts but I finally got the files to show up and I linked each piece of media with the timeline elements.
All but one of the media elements linked.
It gave me an error message for the one that didn't:
The selected file does not contain video media used by clip references in one or more sequences. These video clip references will be deleted, and cannot be undone. Do you want to continue?
That was an AVI video that didn't import but the rest of the AVI's with the exact same settings did import.
And the computer I was on didn't play AVI video's (only the audio) - which is what about 3 of the video elements in the timeline were composed of. I donwloaded codec's from DivX and I think Microsoft codecs and maybe one more set of codecs that all were supposed to have AVI within them but the computer still only played the audio.
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Link to file without upload

I am using v4 and am having a hard time inserting a link to a
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to upload this file to the server before it will link it. Seeing as
I don't allow any uploads to the server I keep getting an error
message and contribute changes the link to "unknown:" I've searched
the Adobe site and this forum and haven't found an answer yet. Is
this a bug or something I am just missing?

mrstopher2 wrote:
> I am using v4 and am having a hard time inserting a link
to a file on a shared
> drive ie: file:\\apfs\file name. Contribute wants to
upload this file to the
> server before it will link it. Seeing as I don't allow
any uploads to the
> server I keep getting an error message and contribute
changes the link to
> "unknown:" I've searched the Adobe site and this forum
and haven't found an
> answer yet. Is this a bug or something I am just
missing?
>
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does not
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Missing images in RH8 with linked Word files

RH8 HTML and MS Word 2007
The images from linked Word documents are not showing up in my RH8 project.
Here's how the project is set up:
The RH project is in its standard location: C drive, in a subfolder underneath My RoboHelp Projects.
All content is included through the Link > Word Document option in RH.
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I have an "Images" folder set up on the network at the same level as the source files, and we link the graphics into the MS Word files from there.
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I'd greatly appreciate it if anyone can shed some light. I am doing my best to avoid importing the graphics directly through RH because I want the online help to pick up the exact structure & content of the source files. This obviously negates the option for importing the Word content vs linking it in. In older versions of RH, I was at least accustomed to RH importing generically named images into the project regardless of whether they were copied directly into the Word file, but I see that this is not even an option when linking the source files into the project.
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Best regards,
Athena

Hi Peter,
Thank you for the recommendations. I want to be sure I’m understanding “embedded” the correct way. Do you mean to insert the images directly into the file—i.e., selecting the MS Word option Insert Picture > Insert? Or do you mean to insert them by selecting Insert Picture > Link to File?
Also, could you let me know where in Windows Explorer I should attempt to trace the images? The image source files are stored with the content source files on my company network, in a separate sub-directory for Images (I have tested the build with all the files on my local drive as well). When I link the Word source files into RH and generate the topics, RH does not bring any images into the project folder within the My RoboHelp Projects directory on my local drive.
I have searched through all the project files/directories that RH creates (top-level project folder, as well as subfolders it creates for each Word linked file), and there are no image files (except for one that I placed in my RH master page). I have attached a screenshot of the project folder (MainProjectFolder.png) and one of the linked file sub-folders (LogBookProjectFolder.png).
The problem seems to be that RH is not recognizing an image as an image. RH knows there are supposed to be images in the htm topics because it does have the red box “placeholder” where the images should be, and the image names are displayed in the red boxes (see attached RH_Project.png screenshot). I have gone into the properties for an image and used the Image Name field to manually map to the directory that contains the source image. When I do that, the image then appears in the top-level project folder with the gold & green RH image icon, and it does then appear in the topic. But at that point, if I update the linked Word file, I lose the image again. I have set the topics with images to where they retain the RH image modifications I’ve done, but then the topic shows as broken in my TOC when I update the linked Word file, and those topics do not appear in the build at all when I generate the WebHelp.
Since RH also does not automatically create any kind of Images folder in the project during the process of linking and generating the source files, I have tried copy/pasting the source images into the top-level RH project folder prior to even linking/generating htm topics from the Word source files. But when I go to a topic and view the properties associated with the image placeholder, RH still does not display any of the image files I pasted into the project folder.
I am happy to provide my source file so that you can investigate this further. Please let me know if you need the file with the images inserted directly or if you need it with them linked in (in which case, I’ll send the image files too).
Thanks,
Athena

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