Which folders do I need to publish WebHelp?

[Michael Cohen]

When I publish my WebHelp project, it creates multiple directories and subdirectories. Seems like there are many more directories than I need, and some of the information (the actual help content) is duplicated.

Which directories do I need to "publish" for our customers to be able to access the WebHelp on our website?

Thanks,

Michael Cohen

[RamonS]

You can use the "Publish" function in Flare and it will upload the files that you need. Also, when you build WebHelp and click on "Open Output Folder" it will bring you exactly to the place that contains all the files that you'll need (which is inside the project folder under output/<UserName>/<TargetName>).
Or is it that you see duplicate files in that folder?

[Michael Cohen]

Ah, that's exactly what I needed to know. Thanks!!

[AltView]

Is there a way to remove output/webhelp from the final directory path?

[lacastle]

Is there a way to remove output/webhelp from the final directory path?

if you are using the Publish option, your files can go anywhere, at any level. there are no output/webhelp directories.
here is the flare help page about publishing - http://webhelp.madcapsoftware.com/flare ... ations.htm

[Michael Cohen]

Is there a way to remove output/webhelp from the final directory path?

if you are using the Publish option, your files can go anywhere, at any level. there are no output/webhelp directories.
here is the flare help page about publishing - http://webhelp.madcapsoftware.com/flare ... ations.htm

Why wouldn't one NOT use the Publish option? I was under the impression that you had to use the Publish option. The Flare help is somewhat hazy on this entire operation.

[LTinker68]

Nope, it's not required. It comes down to workflow, really. If you use the publish then you can upload to a web server from within Flare. If you don't use the publish feature, then you have to use some other mechanism to get the files to the web server (Windows Explorer, Dreamweaver, SSH, etc.). Some users don't publish but build the outputs to a specific file store location and a batch program or a programmer grabs the files when a new product build is being done.

[whunter]

Why wouldn't one NOT use the Publish option? I was under the impression that you had to use the Publish option.

You can build the output and then just manually copy it to where you need it to be. You don't *have* to use publish.

[lacastle]

Publishing is good for me because i work my projects from my local computer's hard drive and i can publish just my output to a network directory so my boss (or someone else) can see what i'm doing.