Madcap uploading unchanged articles

[Pannonian]

I got a webhelp project thats published on a external server. For several months i could publish and just the files that changed were uploaded. But since last week (i created another destination for our mobilehelp output - don't know if thats an coincidence) every time i publish it, EVERY article is uploaded. This is pretty annoying, since it takes a very long time. I selected the right target, and "Upload Changes Only" is also checked. Any ideas?

[NorthEast]

Has anything else changed?

And is it possible that your topics do actually change on every build?
For example, say you add a date stamp to your master page that's used for all your topics, that'd mean every topic would be updated on each build.


I think the Flare looks at the catapult.log.zip file in the publish destination to check the previously published files, so if that file is missing/deleted then it'll probably upload all of the files.

[Pannonian]

There are no timestamps. It's normal behaviour that all (even there are no changes) articles are generated in the build process?!

[Pannonian]

I just tested two things:

I ran the whole publishing. After it finished, i republished again and it didn't upload anything, and was finished after a few seconds. Then i got to my contentfolder, changed 1 line in 1 artcile, built again (every article was generated) - now it uploads everything again with publishing...

[NorthEast]

If it was working before, and nothing has changed with your project or server; then I've no more ideas.

[RamonS]

The only thing that comes to mind is dynamically generated content that gets inserted at build time. When looking at a topic it looks the same as before, but for a dumb computer it is different. Just guessing...

[gus1980_99]

A patch is available that fixes this issue for Flare v7.1. It did the trick for me.

http://kb.madcapsoftware.com/Content/Fl ... ublish.htm

[gus1980_99]

A patch is available that fixes this issue for Flare v7.1. It did the trick for me.

http://kb.madcapsoftware.com/Content/Fl ... ublish.htm

MadCap did a good job of promptly fixing this issue. After issuing the the standalone patch for v7.1, they included a fix for this issue in the v7.2 update.