Robohelp and TFS

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Robohelp 9, Citrix, and TFS, a good combination?

Hi,
We are using RoboHelp 9 installed in a Citrix environment, using Team Foundation Systems (TFS) as a version control system.
Some users of RoboHelp lose their Recent projects list everytime they log off the system and log back in. They also lose all information about the TFS server and have to go through the whole process of linking to a TFS server and getting back their workspace everytime they want to open a project after they've logged off their system.
The exact same configuration works well for some users, wheras they do not loose their recent projects list nor their connection information with TFS whether they log off their system or not.
Any ideas where the problem lies?
Thanks

Rh10 is cool with having projects on a server, not Rh10 itself. My understanding too is this is a breach of the licence agreement as it is sold on a one user per licence basis.
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
@petergrainge

Connection between RoboHelp HTML 10 project and TFS (Visual Studio 12) persists when opening local version of project

Our global documentation team is using RH and TFS for version control and collaboration. In our workflow, each assigned writer connects to TFS to edit a RH project and the project lead then compiles and publishes the WebHelp from his/her local version of the project. All seemed fine, but last week I noticed that when I closed a TFS-connected project and re-opened it from my local hard drive to compile and view, I was still connected to TFS; I was prompted to get the latest files from TFS and all (well, nearly all) the options are available on the Version Control menu. I've since discovered that we have other RH projects where the connection to TFS unexpectedly persists.
What can we do to fix this issue? Is it possible that something in each of the affected RH projects has been corrupted? NB: In the case of my project, the version in TFS does not include any "verboten" file, like those with PSS or CPD extensions.
Thanks.
Alan

As I understand your description correctly, this is precisely the way RoboHelp is supposed to work. Everyone works locally but saves changes to the server so that other authors can also see the changes.
What is it you want to achieve precisely? You can disconnect a project from TFS without removing it from the server, but is that what you want? If it is, take a look at Rick's fantastic tutorial: http://www.robowizard.com/RoboWizard/MonthlyScry/102004.htm
Kind regards,
Willam

Robohelp 9 and TFS build.

Up to now I have been using RoboHelp 7 for generation of my html help files, but now we have switched to RoboHelp 9.
We are using Team Foundation server for source control and build service. I had set ut a build task that built the html help files by using the standar MS help compiler. However to my surprise, I see that RoboHelp has changed the .hhk, .hhc, .ali, .glo files to XML format. When a compile is started, these files are temporarily converted to their native formats before the html compile starts.
This means that the standard html help build task will not work anymore.
Does anyone have a solution for this?
I guess one solution is to install RoboHelp on the build server and let the robohelp compiler do the build, but then I will need a dedicated build task for this.
I assume that I also will need a separate license.
Regards
Knut

I would look first at whether RoboHelp would work on the server OS before worrying about the licensing.
Why not use RoboHelp's command line generation and copy that output to where you want it.
There is a topic on my site written by Bill Albing that covers command line generation.
http://www.grainge.org/pages/authoring/command_line/command_line.htm
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Oracle Development Tools and TFS

Hey there,
currently I'm struggeling with how to work with Visual Studio Oracle Development Tools and TFS.
I'm relatively new to Oracle-DBs, I'm known to MS SQL Server.
In General my colleagues and me work in the solution Explorer (SQL Server DB-Solution), upload and get the latest Version from TFS. If anything new comes in I can easily use the Schema compare from my solution to the database.
Now my question: How is this possible when working with Oracle DBs? Imagine I get some new tables and schemas from TFS. How do I Transfer this easily from solution Explorer to my Server Explorer / DBs?
Do I really have to deploy each and every script manually?
Thanks in advance

Hi Matthaeus Woroch,
Since this issue is related to the Oracle tool, you know that it is the third party tool and it has own support site, like the following documents:
http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/obe/db/12c/r1/appdev/dotnet/SchemaCompare/index.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/visual-studio/overview/index.html
I suggest you post this issue to the Oracle forum for dedicated support. Thanks for your understanding.
Best Regards,
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Looking for documentation regarding RoboHelp and VSS (SourceSafe)

We are considering using VSS (SourceSafe) as our source control for RoboHelp - has anyone had any success with
RoboHelp and this tool?

The config.xml has a schema - see the config.xml for the location. There is not much documentation in it since it is generated.
Each of the elements is also accessible via a JMX MBean - there is a reference manual that describes the MBean values,
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12840_01/wls/docs103/wlsmbeanref/core/index.html
You can use that to understand the config.xml elements - you will have to map from MBean name to element name - i.e. DomainMBean to domain (in config.xml)

RoboHelp and Across

Our company uses RoboHelp with the
Across
Language Server for our help file localization. We have some
very large help projects (largest is approx 2800 topics) and are
experiencing a lot of overhead with the files in the Across system.
We generate the help file as a .CHM help file and then decompile it
and send the decompiled .htm files for translation and then
recompile them when we get them back.
Originally when we submitted our ~2800 .htm files for
localization, Across would crash while trying to import our files.
So the Across people built a custom merge tool to combine several
hundreds of topics together into a single file to get around this
problem. So now, translators work on translating 20 or so merged
files. These are then split into their respective .htm topics and
then sent back to me for recompilation as the target language help
file.
Now we're running into overhead problems where there's an
update to our help project. Rather than just sending them the .htm
topic. We have to find what merged file contains the topic and
merge those files together and then resubmit it. It's turning out
to be a lot of work.
I'm wondering if anyone else uses Across with RoboHelp and if
you have any best practices for improvements? Or if there's a
better authoring tool for localization in Across?

Hi James. You are right to be weary. I don't know this site but I'd be very surprised if you end up getting RHS9 for the advetised price. I know that Adobe do offer academic licences at reduced cost but not that reduced. Sorry I can't be more help.

Differences between Robohelp and Robohelp Server

I am in the process of evaluatinf Robohelp. I have found out
there are 2 versions: Robohelp and Rohohelp Server. can someone
list the differences in these products or direct me to a
link/document where I can find this information?
Thanks in Advance
Rodman Veney

Hi, Rodman
You may find this article in the Adobe Developer Center
helpful as well. It refers to RoboHelp Server 6, but virtually all
information remains relevant for v7. As Rick says, "Pro" is simply
the same as WebHelp or FlashHelp, but the content is published to
the RoboHelp Server so that you can get the benefit of user
feedback reports and the other features described here:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/robohelp/articles/rhserver.html
Thanx
John

Robohelp 9 and TFS 2012 issue - TFS linking is not working

Hi,
I'm using Adobe Robohelp 9 with Team Foundation Server 2012 on Windows 7 - 64 bit. I've also installed Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 MSSCCI Provider. I've also mapped the project folders on my machine.
But when I try to open any project, it is giving the following error message:
And if I click on Yes, it shows:
If I say No for this second message, it opens the project without TFS connection. I can't check-out any file. I can just modify it and it will be saved locally.
When I'm outside of Robohelp project, means in the project folder, I can see all the project files are mapped and they have TFS check-in/check-out/Get latest.... all these options as shown below:
But when I open the project, I can't see the TFS option under file menu.
Please suggest if there is any solution...
Thanks,
Dipali

Hi,
Just to be safe: Did you also install the VS 2012 Shell (Isolated) and the TFS plugin? As far as I know, you need the shell and the TFS provides apart from the MSSCCI provider. (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/robohelp/articles/robohelp-tfs-integration.html)
The interesting thing is not that the connection is lost, but that if you want to browse it, you don't see a browse page. Normally, RH would just show you a popup where you can select the project.
Now for some magic: **Note: I will describe how to manually change your source control link. Make sure that you have a backup apart from TFS, just in case.
Check out the .XPJ file.
Remove the .CPD file.
Open the .XPJ file with a text editor, such as Notepad.
Search for the text <name>vc::cookie</name>
<matchedpair>
<name>vc::cookie</name>
<value>$/BV - MVV/Main/Key2Vergunningen/Tools/Documentatie/mvv-gebruikers</value>
</matchedpair>
Now get the path from the VS project ($/BV - MVV) and the full path to the folder in source control where the project is stored.
Set the complete path between the <value></value> tags.
Save the .XPJ file.
Open the project with RoboHelp.
You connection should now be restored. Note that if you make even a small mistake in the TFS project path, RoboHelp will not be able to find the project.
Greet,
Willam

RoboHelp X5 and TFS 2010

We are using RoboHelp X5 to create HTML help projects. Our R&D team is using Team Foundation Server Source Control and we're planning on storing our help projects there as well. I have installed Visual Studio 2010 and configured the team foundation server. Team Explorer is up and running. I also downloaded and installed the Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider 2010 v.3.3 plugin. RoboHelp recognised the Team Foundation Server but when I try to connect to the server from RoboHelp, a Server Busy -message appears. According to our R&D people the server is not busy and that there is probably some sort of a compatibility issue here. Is there a way to make RoboHelp X5 work with TFS source control?
Br,
Satu

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How to work in RH9 when project is integrated with TFS and TFS server is down

My RoboHelp 9 project is integrated with TFS/Visual Studio. The server went down yesterday and won't be back up until late today.
If I open the project locally (rather than from Version Control), how do I eventually get the latest files (those that I've worked on locally) into Version Control?
Thank you.

Hi,
I use the following method:
1.       Open the project and disconnect from source control.
2.       Modify any files you need. Be aware that when you add/rename/remove/move files, the RoboHelp control files are modified too. (.apj and .fpj)
3.       When TFS is up, check out the files using team explorer. Do NOT overwrite local files. (Make a backup first.)
4.       Using TFS, check in all modified files. Do NOT check in the XPJ file. If you do, the project will lose its connection with source control.
5.       Thrash the local project.
6.       Get the latest version from the server.
Be aware that this requires that you know what you’re doing. Especially when control files are modified. When you only modify the content of existing topics and check the existing topic in, you should be fine.
Greet,
Willam

MS Access 2010 and TFS problem when I try to "create form team foundaition"

I am using MS Access 2010 and trying to use TFS for source control.
I installed MSSCCI for 2010 and the "Access Developer Extensions"
I am able to create a project in TFS and check in and check out access objects.
My only problem is when I click on "Create from Team Foundation" it asks me to specify the server and when I click OK it gives me the following error message:
"Cannot create a new Microsoft Access database from this source code control project. It contains neither a Data and Misc. objects file nor a database name file."
I have tried different ways and could not get it to work.
Thanks for your help

Did you figure out a solution for this!>?
I am having the same issue. I can issue a GET and bring down all the objects (including the very files that it says it can't find) - then when "creating from team foundation" I get the same problem.
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/704a18d7-6687-49c2-8830-a24aa794303e/tfs-2013-with-access-20072010-cant-create-a-local-tfs-copy?forum=tfsgeneral

Best practice - Development Lifecycle in an SSRS, SharePoint and TFS environment

Hi,
We have installed our SharePoint/SSRS (in SharePoint integration mode) development environment servers and we're starting to think about the development process for moving reports to a test environment, then to a production environment. Since the RDL files contain URL's specific to the server on which it resides (URL to the data source, URL's to images in an image library, URL's to subreports, etc), I'd like get some guidance regarding how to move RDL's to the other servers.
Since we're planning to use TFS, one option is to use a build script to change the URL's in the RDL file from pointing to the Dev server to the Test server when we promote a report to test, then change the URL to the Prod server when we promote a report to production. The data source libraries and image librarys will use the same paths regardless of environment, so changing the server name in the URL should suffice. However, I don't really like the idea of changing source code (the RDL) during code promotion, but I can't really think of an alternate solution. Is there any best practice guidance or is there anyone who'd like to share how their development process works?
Thanks,
-Mike-

TFS questions go to the TFS forum where they also cover the SharePoint parts of them.
You'll find it here: (extract from the sticky post at the top of SharePoint - General on which forum to post to)
Team Foundation Server - there are several Team Foundation Server forums included in the "Visual Studio Team System" group here
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/vsts/
Team Foundation Server - Admin is for instance here http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfsadmin/threads/
and Team Foundation Server - General is here http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfsgeneral/threads/
Moving to Off-topic.
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Corrupted Frame files not importing correctly to RoboHelp and can't save MIF as FM

Hi,
I have Adobe Technical Communication Suite 3.0, which has FrameMaker 10.0.2.249 in it.
I created a user guide in FrameMaker, some of the chapters for which I imported from Word, and little bits of text here and there of which I copied and pasted from Word.
a) When I created a RoboHelp project and imported the Frame files, a little bit of content disappeared. A sentence here, a bulleted item there, not all the content I copied and pasted.
b) I thought I would save the Frame files as .MIF and then reopen them in Frame to get rid of any corruption. They saved as .MIF just fine and they open again with Frame just fine. However, when I try to Save As .FM, I get the message that .MIF cannot be saved as .FM.
I checked the extension in the Save As box and it has no mention of .MIF.
What to do? Any suggestions either for a) or b)?

This is a bug in the Save As dialog. If the filename is yourfile.FM, you
can choose MIF as the filetype in the Save as Type box, FrameMaker
changes the filename to yourfile.mif and saves as mif.
But, for some reason, if you have a filename of yourfile.MIF and choose
FM in the Save as Type dialog box, you get that error message and the
save doesn't happen. The workaround is to delete the MIF extension in
the filename. Then the save works fine and the file is renamed with an
FM extension.
In other words, saving FM to MIF works as expected. FrameMaker renames
the file extension and saves in the new format. But, in a MIF to FM
save, FrameMaker refused to rename the MIF extension. (Maybe there is a
reason for this?) You have to delete the extension or the save won't happen.
I'm going to report this as a bug.
Mike Wickham

Update vs2013 update 4 and TFS can't work!

like this:
and the ActivityLog.xml show :
<entry><record>1581</record> <time>2015/02/16 08:36:44.371</time> <type>Information</type> <source></source>VisualStudio <description>Entering function CVsPackageInfo::HrInstantiatePackage</description>
<guid>{E8B06F41-6D01-11D2-AA7D-00C04F990343}</guid> </entry> <entry><record>1582</record> <time>2015/02/16 08:36:44.371</time> <type>Warning</type> <source></source>VisualStudio <description>Unexpected
system error mode before loading package [Visual Studio Web Browser Package]</description> <guid>{E8B06F41-6D01-11D2-AA7D-00C04F990343}</guid> </entry> <entry><record>1583</record> <time>2015/02/16 08:36:44.371</time>
<type>Information</type> <source></source>VisualStudio <description>Begin package load [Visual Studio Web Browser Package]</description> <guid>{E8B06F41-6D01-11D2-AA7D-00C04F990343}</guid> </entry> <entry><record>1584</record>
<time>2015/02/16 08:36:44.371</time> <type>Information</type> <source></source>VisualStudio <description>Loading UI library</description> <guid>{E8B06F41-6D01-11D2-AA7D-00C04F990343}</guid> <path>C:\Program
Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\\Common7\IDE*\msenvui.dll</path> </entry> <entry><record>1585</record> <time>2015/02/16 08:36:44.372</time> <type>Information</type> <source></source>VisualStudio
<description>End package load [Visual Studio Web Browser Package]</description> <guid>{E8B06F41-6D01-11D2-AA7D-00C04F990343}</guid> </entry> <entry><record>1586</record> <time>2015/02/16 08:38:50.769</time>
<type>Information</type> <source></source>VisualStudio <description>Entering function CVsPackageInfo::HrInstantiatePackage</description> <guid>{B80B010D-188C-4B19-B483-6C20D52071AE}</guid> </entry> <entry><record>1587</record>
<time>2015/02/16 08:38:50.770</time> <type>Information</type> <source></source>VisualStudio <description>Begin package load [Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamFoundation.TeamFoundationHost, Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamFoundation,
Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a]</description> <guid>{B80B010D-188C-4B19-B483-6C20D52071AE}</guid> </entry> <entry><record>1588</record> <time>2015/02/16 08:38:50.771</time>
<type>Error</type> <source></source>VisualStudio <description>CreateInstance failed for package [Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamFoundation.TeamFoundationHost, Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamFoundation, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a]</description> <guid>{B80B010D-188C-4B19-B483-6C20D52071AE}</guid> </entry>
80070002 <errorinfo>未能加载文件或程序集“Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a”或它的某一个依赖项。系统找不到指定的文件。</errorinfo> <entry><record>1589</record> <time>2015/02/16 08:38:50.771</time>
<type>Error</type> <source></source>VisualStudio <description>End package load [Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamFoundation.TeamFoundationHost, Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamFoundation, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a]</description>
<guid>{B80B010D-188C-4B19-B483-6C20D52071AE}</guid>
80004005 - E_FAIL <errorinfo>未能加载文件或程序集“Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a”或它的某一个依赖项。系统找不到指定的文件。</errorinfo> </entry>
i try clean this C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0 file

Hi Richard,
Thanks for your post.
Please refer to the reply in your another post:
https://social.microsoft.com/Forums/zh-CN/f47c847a-9b23-445e-9e82-1e73cbc7826d/vs2013-update-4-rtm-tfs?forum=vstszhchs.
If other VS 2013 working fine on other clients and this issue only happened on your clinet, please Repair your VS 2013 Update 4, then try works with TFS Server again.
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