RoboHelp HTML Version 8 - Merging AIR files

We use Webhelp Pro to merge 19 separate projects into a single merged help file. Can I do that with AIR output, and if so, how? Can anyone point me to a tutorial?

Hi there!
I agree with what both Pater and Rick have said, but there may be another way to acheive your objective.
I have merged 4 additional help systems into our Knowledgebase as an AIR module.
How? By importing each project's topics into the Knnowledgebase and the making a top level TOC entry for each components.
I got this idea from a comment that Rick made noting that the TOC is simply a set of links to the topics. In a merged webhelp, the TOC entry for the child projects are simply placeholders to make the multiple projects appear as a unified whole.
So in the case I am describing, the "merged" Top level TOC entries actually point to the topics inside the AIR module.
While I was doing this, there were some issues with the search. While debugging this issue, I discovered that the .cpd file was getting rather large each time I added another system. (over 2.5meg) To fix this, i just kept deleting the .cpd after i mporting each help system and let RH rebuild it for me. Search problem solved!
(close merged project/delete project.cpd/reopenproject)
Now, whether or not this will work for you would seem in part to depend on:
The way your 19 subprojects folders are structured
Number of topics in total (we now have about 500 topics form all the merged modules, not sure what the limits for AIRHelp are)
How you are handling your RH Source Control process
The attached snag shows the merged Knowledgebase TOC with one of the Help systems topics opened for you to see. It's all there and it works. My team uses this tool every day and they love the fact that all the files they need are in one interface with commenting and autoupdating.
Hope thos helps or at least gives you something to consider
Ciao
Ed
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