duplicates in alias files

[fvila]

I get many duplicates in my alias file
When I look at it in Flare, it has 50 lines.
In Notepad++, the file is very short (see below)
This is causing problems because the aliases are used by a program to generate a page of links.
What can I do to avoid this?

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<CatapultAliasFile>
    <Map Name="portal_admin_300" Link="/Content/config/Configuration_Start_here.htm" />
    <Map Name="portal_install_200" Link="/Content/Installation/Migration/Gateway_migrating.htm" />
</CatapultAliasFile>

[NorthEast]

In the alias editor, you are looking at identifiers from all your header files (*.h).
So the duplicates are in your header files - webhelp_portal_user.h, webhelp_portal_admin.h, etc.

In the alias editor, you can filter the identifiers by the header file - click (all identifiers) in the top left.

When you link an identifier to a topic, it is saved in the alias file (*.flali).
So in your example, only 2 topics are mapped in that alias file.

[wclass]

It looks like you have more than one header (*.h) file and the entries are duplicated across these files rather than the alias file.
It's possible these are the problem - do you really need so many .H files?

If you are creating several target outputs from the one project for the one application, such as an install guide and a user guide, and more than one of them needs context sensitive help, then you probably only need one .H file and then create a separate alias for each target you need, all linking into the same header file.

It would help if you told us how you get the .H files and how many you have, and what targets you need to create.