Porting X5 to R9 and conditional tags

Hello,
I am trying to port conditional tag information from RoboHelp
X5 to R9. I can already port RoboHelp X5 content to R9. However,
with our current process the conditional tag information is not
ported. After I have ported the content and I run the report tool,
no tag information is displayed. I made sure that I selected
conditional tags in the topic properties, options section.
Does anyone know if there is a specific RoboHelp X5 file that
contains this information? Can I copy that file over somehow so
that when I run the report tool in R9 it will show each topic and
the tags that are applied to it?
Currently the way we port is by creating a new project in R9
and then copying the files .hhk and hhc from the X5 project into
the new directory. I'm going to test and see if by copying the
rhbuildtag.apj file into the new project if that will reestablish
the build tag information in the reports section.
Thanks,
Michael Randall

Hi Peter,
Thanks for the quick response. I was talking about RoboHelp
9.2 when I mentioned R9. I tried your suggestion but it didn't
work. After I recreated the same build tags RoboHelp did not
automatically register the tags to the topics.
After I created the tags, I saved the project, closed it, and
then reopened it in hopes that that might trigger it.
I then tried to generate a report hoping maybe that would
work, but still no luck.
I'm wondering how the tags stay assigned to the topics after
they are applied. I don't see a special file that links them per
topic.
Any other ideas?
btw, I've seen and used your web site. It was very helpful
when I was trying to figure out what was wrong with the baggage
file features in X5
Thanks,
Michael Randall

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