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Subject:Re: advanced Robohelp question From:Bill Burns <BillDB -at- ILE -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 2 Feb 1999 13:18:07 -0700
Gil writes:
> Here's the question: Is there anyway to create an automated process so
> that
> all I have to do is tell robohelp to create a document with called FOO and
> it will create four topics called FOO Topic A, FOO Topic B, FOO Topic C,
> and FOO Topic D. Then under each topic it will place the appropriate topic
> X boilerplate text and finally link the four topics in pre specified ways,
> noting that the linked four interlinked topics each have the topic
> variable
> name FOO tacked on before the appropriate topic.
>
I guess I'm not quite following you. Are you using the same topic IDs each
time, or are you creating new ones with each file? I guess you could get
pretty fancy with WBA or WordBasic (depending on which version of Word
you're using), but I'm not quite clear how the files actually differ from
each other.
Could you provide a little more detail?
Bill Burns - Eccentric Technology Consultant
ILE Communications Group
billdb -at- ile -dot- com
Call me fishmeal.
