RoboHelp Classic Discovery Question

[bbachman -at- justicesystems -dot- com]

I'm in a situation where we produce help to ship with our company's 
almost-COTS software product.

Some customization of the product is undertaken to customer demands.  Prior 
to my arrival, this resulted in some incredible near 100% duplication in 
the help files (like having to change the same text in three or more 
projects when a universal enhancement is fielded).

As an experiment, I set up a trial project with a main topic that calls a 
pop-up.  In the pop-up (which is in a separate file) is a link to another 
main topic (in the same file as the first main topic).

I then set up a second project with two main topics.  I imported the pop-up 
file to the new project (without copying the file to the new project) and 
then made the link from the first main topic to the pop-up.  The second 
main topic has the same name as the corresponding topic in the original 
project.

When I compiled both projects, I was pleased to find that in the second 
project, the link from the pop-up did indeed take me to the second main 
topic in the second project.

In retrospect it indeed does not appear to be rocket science.  But are 
there any non-obvious pitfalls?

TIA

-Blaine


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