Working with Forte Projects

Question

In my workspace called Parent, I have created a project called Logger.prd and have specified the Project Directory as Parent/Logger/Debug. The Project Type is User Makefile Application. The Makefile Target directory is specified as ./ (dot-slash) to be relative to the Project Directory. After saving the project, I go to the Build tool which shows the correct target directory, and I define a macro for this target.
At this point the target builds fine, in the correct directory.
Now, I derive a new workspace from Parent called Child. It has the same directory structure, thus has a directory called Child/Logger/Debug. I copied Parent/Logger/Debug/Logger.prd to Child/Logger/Debug. Then I Open the project Child/Logger/Debug/Logger.prd and change it's Project Directory to Child/Logger/Debug, select APPLY and save the project. I go the the Build tool which shows the correct target directory (Child/Logger/Debug), and I define the macro for this target.
At this point the target builds fine, in the correct directory (Child/Logger/Debug)
Now it get messy.
I close the current project and open the project Parent/Logger/Debug/Logger.prd.
At this point, if I go to the Build tool, it shows the incorrect target directory.....It shows Child/Logger/Debug instead of Parent/Logger/Debug. If I build the target now, it will write to the wrong directory.
If I select Project->Edit Project, it shows the corrector project directory (Parent/Logger/Debug). If I select APPLY, the Build Tool will now show the correct target directory (Parent/Logger/Debug), However, it lost the macro previously defined to the target.
What is going on with the Build tool and it's target directory? After loading a project, Workshop should use that project directory for the Build Tools Target directory.....it's associated with and defined by the project.
This worked correctly with Workshop 5. With the Workshop 5 worksets, we could a workset in one directory, hit the build hammer, and it build to the correct directory. Then we could load a different workset by the same name in a different Workspace, and with one button, build to the correct directory.
So why with FORTE, do we have to go back and APPLY the Project Directory so it is reflected correctly by BUILD, but then have to re-add the macros? A one-step process, is now a 5-step process, which if you are not careful, could wipe out the executables in the wrond workspace...
--steve                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Answer 1

Welcome to the forum.
What do you mean by "shell merge" other than merged webhelp?
Merged webhelp merges at runtime so at the authoring end each
project is unique which means the RH reports relate to just one
project. No way I know of getting RH to report across the whole
merge.
If you are using source control, you don't need merged
webhelp to allow different authors to work on different topics. The
rationale for merged webhelp would be delivering different output
combinations to different end users.
Bring all the projects into one though could be interesting
if there are cross project links as their relationship would
change.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it seems like good advice.
There's a topic on merged webhelp on my site. It is based on
X3 dialogs but the methods are still valid including for RH7,