atw: Re: RoboHelp conditional builds [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Is the book with the problem at either the start or end of the TOC? I've
moved on from RoboHelp a year or so now, but I always had a Welcome
topic at the start and a Copyright topic at the end that belonged in all
possible outputs because there was a bug in RHx5 that caused the same
problem as you describe when building to different outputs. I found the
start/end topics to be the best work-around, but you can also re-arrange
the books in the TOC between builds if you don't want the extra topics.
 
Margaret

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A question for people who have experience using conditional builds with
RoboHelp. 

I wanted to produce two CHM versions of an admin document containing
procedures, for two different audiences. One audience (staff at DFAT
posts) has only limited access to the functionality, so their procedures
form a subset of the set of procedures for the other audience (our Voice
Operations Unit). I therefore created conditional build tags (POSTS and
VOU)  to apply to the topics and, as hoped, managed to produce two
different CHM documents, each displaying only the procedures for the
relevant audience. 

The only snag is that in the table of contents I grouped topics into
books and I had hoped that, where a build involved none of the topics in
a book, that book would itself not appear in the TOC. But that isn't so.
The book did appear but it seems to have been converted to a topic, and
its contents are, most strangely, the text from a quite different topic.


Is there any way to prevent a book from appearing in the TOC for a build
when it consists of topics excluded from that build? 

I should explain that we're still using Version 5 here, in case that's
relevant! 

Howard 


Howard Silcock
Technical Writer
Zare Pty Ltd
Ph  02 6261 2073

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