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Subject:Re: Brief about Conditional Builds in Robohelp From:Klaus Nji <makaveli_0000 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"T.W. Smith" <techwordsmith -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:14:25 -0800 (PST)
Also, can one use condition builds to replace text. Say I want one version of the document to say Product X and another version to say Product Y.
Is this possible in RoboHelp?
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From: T.W. Smith <techwordsmith -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: Pro TechWriter <pro -dot- techwriter -at- gmail -dot- com>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 12:14:57 AM
Subject: Re: Brief about Conditional Builds in Robohelp
Is this the same as the conditions in RH X5?
On 1/12/07, Pro TechWriter <pro -dot- techwriter -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
> Hi Jenny:
>
> Conditional builds means you can tag topics in a way so that they to be
> included in a build (say online build 1) and not in another (print build
> 1).
>
>
> You could also use this feature for software products that have modules
> that
> some customers may have and others may not have. This allows you to
> generate
> a help file (or WebHelp, etc.) by picking and choosing which sections to
> publish by applying tags to topics.
>
> You could also do this with merged Webhelp, where you included some parts
> of
> the help file and not others depending on what the customer needed.
>
> I hope this makes sense. Feel free to e-mail me off list if you need more
> of
> an explaination.
> PT
>
> On 1/9/07, Jennita Catherine <jennita -at- noida -dot- interrasystems -dot- com> wrote:
> >
> > Can someone explain conditional builds in Robohelp for me?????
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jenny
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