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No ADA required. But realizing we have more than 2000 topics, I don't think individual redirects are feasible. It's looking like the plan to roll out a Help Center "lite" with the core content rebuilt, that links to the legacy help structure for a period of time during which we knock em over the ...

Thanks. Sounds like a joyous undertaking. Can't wait!

Thank you for the replies. I'm pretty familiar with Flare so am comfortable setting up the project and topic structure. Although I will review the Flare guidelines to make sure I'm up to date on best practices and the newest features.

Am replacing HTML5 output with HTML5 output. We don't have CSH ...

Looking for guidelines, best practices, or success stories from anyone who has replaced a legacy help system with a new one. The HTML help project I inherited is not fixable. I need to start over. All topics will have new URLs. Need an approach that minimizes customer impact cause by all the links ...

Hi Dave. I wasn't entirely sure a straight js copy from one build to a different build would work, because I know 0 about how js files work. But I will try it both ways, and if a straight copy works that would be fantastic.

Who is my Team Administrator?

Just found what looks like TOC text I can edit in one of the chunked js files. I had not checked the chunks, nor do I know anything about chunks, but here we go.

I had tried looking in the js file to see if I could update the TOC manually, but in Notepad it didn't show any TOC data so assumed I was wrong about it being there. I don't know anything about js really so will have to look in to what can open and edit those files. Thanks.

Thanks for the replies. I can't use Publish because we have file names that are too long thanks to some heavily nested content folders and really long file names. It breaks the publish and the fix I read about requires a version of Windows I don't have and can't get. I had looked in the output Data ...

Moving my built project to our servers takes 10+ hours. So I need a way to copy only a few locally-updated and built files to the server output. Not a problem with topics. But I can't find the fltoc file in the output. How can I copy an updated TOC to existing output?

Thx.
Lisa

You may be on to something here. I had checked everywhere for conditions except the folders. So I just stripped all conditions from all top-level folders because I want to set exclusion conditions at the topic level only. In my first test build that seems to have the desired effect, at least when ...

Am taking this up with MadCap support rather than post screenshots of our app here. Will update thread with final outcome. Best guess is that the unchecked Advanced "exclude" target setting is overriding the target exclude condition, but don't understand why it should. We have many topics that aren ...

The project is pretty large with a complex structure I inherited, so a little hard to find specific topics that are correctly being excluded. However from comparing the output size it looks like very few if any are being excluded. And the funny thing about that Advanced setting you mentioned is the ...

I still see no reason the build is including these excluded topics. I have one condition in the topic properties and it's only the exclusion. Target is set to exclude that condition with no overriding include condition. I looked at the topic code in text editor and find nothing that would cause it ...

The reverse of my previous question, ha. I have applied a condition tag to the topic and the target is set to exclude topics having that condition. Topic is still being included in the (HTML5) output. There is no other include or exclude condition. What else could be causing the excluded topic to be ...

Found it! Advanced target setting: "Exclude topics not linked directly or indirectly from the target" was checked in the offending target.

Good question. It's HTML5. I have two targets that are virtually the same but for one conditional tag that excludes certain topics from one or the other. I've quadruple checked the topics are tagged correctly. Also if I include the "missing" topics in the other target, they don't go missing. So it ...

I have a few topics that are missing from the output after I build. Have checked condition tags and target settings. No obvious commonality between the missing files that I can see, other than they are built with the same target. What are some other reasons topics might be missing from output?

Well that works, sort of. Not so well if topics have multiple search tags and the tag you're looking for isn't first, alphabetically. Will have to work that out via exported file I guess.

Thanks, I'll do that. I confused file list with Content Explorer. This project is massive. The file list is still loading...10 minutes and counting.

So, file tags. The report I create does not sort by file tag. It sorts by topic, which is not useful. I want a report of just the topics that have a specific file tag. See the advice to export instead of report, but not sure what is meant by "open the File List". My project file list/folder ...

This help project was rebuilt from output after a previous author deleted all of the source files. And before that was maintained by many different people and then by no people for a long time. I'm just trying to keep it alive and halfway usable while I build a new one. It's complicated...

So I'd still need to open and manually add a heading-styled title to each topic, just not open Topic Properties for each, right? I can try that. There is other boilerplate clutter at the top of each topic that I think will get sucked in as the search results heading if I don't delete it or add the ...

Unfortunately the only heading style in these topics is applied to a generic string like "Topic Help", which is also the topic title. This is essentially what's causing the mess in search results. Pages of "Topic Help" listings in the search results. So it doesn't seem that using existing headings ...

I've inherited a project with 848 field help topics that all have the same topic title, "Topic Help". This is not pretty in search results. Not all topics have headings. All do have boilerplate text above the topic text that is hard wired (not template text) in the topic. Any way to update topic ...