Hi. I've just been reading Mr Grainge's fine directions on how to generate merged help, using his sample files in the process. I'd appreciate some comments on the following observations and questions.
- It appears that before one generates merged help, the user should ensure that all child projects have been individually generated first so that all recent changes to those projects' content are present in the generated merged help. In short, it appears that generating the parent project doesn't automatically pre-generate the child projects, Is this correct?
- I also experimented with putting text in one of the child topics, and applying conditional build tags to them. I found that the conditional text that appears in the merged, in the text from a particular child project, is whatever conditional text was exposed when the child project was last run. It also seems that the conditional build tags specified in the parent project (via the single source config) has no affect on the text exposed/hidden for the child projects. Is this to be expected? If so, can I expect the same behavior regarding user defined variables?
- If my observations above are correct, is there any technique or script one can use to cause all child HTML text to be generated (per a specified single source config for each child) first, and THEN generate the merge via generating the parent help?
- Regardless of the conclusions to the above three items, are there merged project features that you'd like to see added to RH 12?
Thanks in advance!
Kurt (a relative RH nooby, and absolute merged help nooby.)