RoboSource Control references

I was wondering if anyone knew of an aftermarket text that
did a good job of covering RSC permissions as well as all the other
options available, such as branching views. We're using RH7 and
soon will be migrating to RH8, and I just set up a large web help
project. Apparently there are a number of settings in the User
Library menu that are required for basic functions like removing a
topic from the project, but are not adequately explained in the
Help.
.MW

Thanks for the reply to this problem.  We discovered that the 2 files were checked out by an employee that was no longer with our company.  We used the following steps to check in the files from RSC using Admin. Rights:
Launch RoboSource > find the file(s) that is "checked-out" > if the author can not check the file back in then right click on the file > select Properties > a popup box will appear > select the tab "Check Outs" > select the name of the person who has the file checked out > select undo Check-Out.
We may have lost some minor edits within the 2 files but this seems to have solved the problem in RH HTML of not being able to add additional topics to the overall project file.

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