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it should work i've done something similar in my projects as well. Once the links are set up, Flare's link correction is pretty robust, as long as you choose to update links everytime you move things around. There 'are' scenarios where you might not want to update the links.

Dare I ask what these ...

would it be horrible to just go through all the "imported" topics and manually update the links?

Not horrible. Just work. GRIN.

i can't think of anything else right now other than the images aren't in the right folder. are all your images in the content\..user guide\resources\images folder ...

do your paths usually look like that? i don't think there should be any folders between CONTENT and RESOURCES.

Yes, they do. Everything I have in Flare is legacy RH stuff. I imported everything from RH. Everything in RH was keyed off the name of the project/book/topic.

If this is wrong, how ...

And you're sure they're in Content\Resources\Images? I can't seem to duplicate the problem (it works every time for me if i combine projects).

I think I found the problem:

Invalid path.png

Whenever I try to open the image in an application, I get this message, but I don't know why the path is ...

If there are a lot of files then you might want to have Flare minimized/closed at the time you copy them over so that it doesn't freak out trying to refresh the Content Explorer as the files are copying. Minimizing should be fine.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Make sure you put the auxiliary/reference files ...

Maybe the cold and the rain are throwing you off :)

I believe you are correct, Lisa. I'm freezing.

Not to mention the fact that knowing RH is actually a hindrance -- in my own case, anyway. That is what I have decided. I liked RH, but I do love Flare, despite the growing pains I'm having at the ...

Open up the folders for the project in Windows Explorer (not in Flare) and just select the ones you want to copy, do ctrl+c (or Edit > Copy), and the ctrl+v (edit > paste) in the "new" folder.

Ohhhh, no wonder what I tried didn't work. LAUGH. I sure didn't do things via Windows Explorer. I did it ...

You can take care a lot of this just by copying the topics (including snippets and masterpages) from ProjectB into the Content folder in ProjectA. Since the index entries are inside the topics themselves, then they'll come over automatically.



How does the actual physical copying happen? What ...

Right now they exist as two separate Flare projects. I need to import one into the other.
Hmmm. First, make copies of both projects. Then...

You can take care a lot of this just by copying the topics (including snippets and masterpages) from ProjectB into the Content folder in ProjectA. Since the ...

In addition to Kevin's comment, even if you have multiple modules that are optional, you can still use one project, and use conditions to create outputs, rather than using separate projects. You really only NEED one project; separating them out may be useful for some cases, but it is not really ...

I wouldn't do it that way, to be honest. If both projects are in Flare, it'll work a lot smoother if you just copy the child topics into the parent project (or, to really be safe, a copy of the parent project) and create a TOC that incorporates all the topics. This way all of the topics will ...

Unfortunately you won't like the answer. Nope you can't do it a merged project for word output...not yet at least.
I understand what you mean.
Its a hotly requested feature. Blaze supports the feature you mention seamlessly so that's a good sign. Unfortunately its not to be released yet....but ...

There is no source control as I'm the only one doing this.

Yes, thanks for the quick responses. Very nice.

I am planning to deal with problem I'm having with my parent/child project, and the problem I'm having outputting merged projects to Word (since Flare does not currently support this), by importing the child project into the parent as a Word document.

Are there any best practices for doing this ...

True, but I have to do this with Word output first, then WebHelp

It appears Flare does not support outputting merged projects to Word format. And this is something I have to do.

Please don't tell me I have to keep RoboHelp around for this.

I could use some information and "best practices" advice on this.

Right now they exist as two separate Flare projects. I need to import one into the other.

As usual, any tips, hints, and suggestions would be appreciated.

You could do that, but I assume that there was a reason for having a merged project. What I'd do is export the individual projects to Word and then copy and paste the one into the other at the place where it should be.

The reason for having a merged project is, I originally created both projects ...

Thanks, people. Looks like I have lots of work to do.

See this discussion thread: http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=5427
I just briefly skimmed over it, but it seems as if you already filed a bug report about this. It appears as that it is not possible to generate printed output from a merged project.

I think I remember filing ...

I swear all the files are where they should be, but who am I to say?

Here is the message I saved to an error report:

Unresolved link to file: C:\My Files\My Projects\Virtual Genesys User Guide RH\Content\Virtual Genesys User Guide\Defining_a_Sampling_Frame_by_Congressional_Districts\Defining_a ...

This is the error I received:

Skipping sub-entries: Printer-based outputs do not support linking to a project: (../../../Batch Generation/Batch Generation.flprj) Compiler C:\My Files\My Projects\Virtual Genesys User Guide RH\Project\TOCs\Print Only.fltoc

I am trying to output to Word a project ...

Your suggestions seemed to work. I got a more errors, but they're different now, so I hope I'm making progress. Will post about them separately.

This actually makes some sense. Thanks for advice.

The Flare way is so different from how I did this in RH that having experience in RH is almost a handicap.

I'm off to try some of the things you suggested.

Some of my concerns have been addressed here:

http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewto ... &sk=t&sd=a

Guess I have work to do. After I figure out what I need to fix!

This is an example of the error messages I'm getting. I'm getting more than one of these, too. I'm getting these for different topics.

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Topic was included in the Flare TOC more than once. The content will still be exported to the output more than once.
MsWord Compiler C:\My Files\My Projects ...