atw: RoboHelp conditional builds [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

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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