RH8 - Publishing Merged Projects with AIR Browserbased Help

Hello,
i have one master project with 5 subprojects. When i make an Output with Adobe Air "Browserbased Help" is the preview ok, all tables of Content from all projects are included.
When i publish it to our webserver i first got a grey screen with an loading error.
I discovered that the link in the start site to the included file ac_oetags.js is incorrect because of upper and lower case writing. When i change the link, the site appeared correctly - but unfortunately only with the table of content of the main project.
Is it possible to merge Projects with Browserbased Help?
Has anybody an idea what went wrong?
Thanks for your support!
Steffan

In the Start Page field you define where you want to generate the help.
If you click the Server settings you define where you want to publish.
When you publish the parent it goes to \\servername\myrobohelp and it creates a folder called mergedProjects and subfolders for each child.
When you publish the children, your Server setting must point to those subfolders.
Does that clarify? If not, please add some screenshot using the camera icon so that the images are in the post as above.
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