Easy way to update alias/header files?

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Easy way to update alias/header files?

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Does anybody know an easy way to update your alias file for CSH?

I'm doing a new rev of a product and I need to quickly see what topics don't have an alias file assigned. I know there wasn't anything in Flare 3 that made this less painful, but I was wondering if there is a feature in Flare 4 that somebody knows about?

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Re: Easy way to update alias/header files?

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The full version of Analyzer will tell you if there are topics that don't have an alias or map ID or whatever.
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Re: Easy way to update alias/header files?

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Is that what the "Topics Not Linked by Map ID" refers to? Because in Reports, there is a report for "Assigned CSH IDs"

So are Map IDs and CSH IDs the same thing?
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Re: Easy way to update alias/header files?

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Yes. RamonS gave a description of difference between a map ID and an alias --> http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewto ... 899#p36899

You don't have to have an alias but you at least need a map ID (I think).
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Re: Easy way to update alias/header files?

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You do need an alias file if you want to make a CSH call using an identifier or map number.

The ID (identifier) is used in both the header and alias files.

e.g. in your header file you might have

#define wotsit 1

which is the identifer (wotsit) and map number (1).

Then in your alias file you link that to the topic:

wotsit -assigned to- about wotsits.htm

Making a CSH call with the identifier wotsit or the map number 1 would display the topic about wotsits.htm.

To answer the original question, a linked topic will have both an identifer and map number, so I'm guessing a topic that doesn't have a 'map ID' isn't assigned to an identifier in the alias file. I can't check it myself, as Flare crashes when I try to run reports.
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