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Importing Topics and Templates

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Import a Topic or Template from Another Help Project


1.Click the File tab, and then click Merge.

2.In the right side, click Import Topics.

3.In the Open Project dialog, find and select the help project file from which you want to import topics, templates, or other objects.

4.Click Open, and then follow the instructions of the Project Merge wizard.

 

Select a Merge Mode for Topics and Templates


On the first step of the Project Merge wizard, you can select topics and templates of the opened help project and specify a Merge Mode individually for each of them.

 

To apply a specific Merge Mode to multiple items:

1.Select the topics and templates that you need.

2.On the toolbar, click Select Merge Mode.

3.In the popup menu, click the merge mode that you want to apply to the selected items.

 

How to select multiple topics:

If you need to select multiple items in the list, you can click on the items while holding down the Ctrl key.

You can use the Select Nodes command that allows you to select topics by a specific topic status (e.g. Complete, Marked, etc.), or select topics with the Context values that exist in the destination help project.

 

Importing topics and templates from another help project

 

Find

Allows you to find topics and templates in the list by their title, Context, Id, or Status values.

 

Select Nodes

Allows you to select topics by a specific topic status, or by the Context values which exist in the destination help project. Similarly, this command allows you to select templates with the paths (names) that exist in the destination help project.

 

Expand/Collapse Nodes

Allows you to expand and collapse nodes that you need.

 

Select Merge Mode

Allows you to apply the Merge Mode that you need to multiple selected topics or templates.

 

Synchronize Destination Project

Allows you to compare the source and destination help projects, and select the Merge Mode for the new topics and already existing topics automatically. The Project Synchronization capability can be used to synchronize topics in a translated help project.

 

Columns

Allows you to show or hide columns that you want to display in the topic tree.

 

Next

Accepts the current settings and proceeds to the next step of the Project Merge wizard.

 

Cancel

Discards the changes to the settings and closes the Project Merge wizard.

 

 

Related Links


Project Merge: Overview

Import Options

Collaborative Work on a Help Project

Translation of a Help Project

Project Synchronization

Importing Styles from Another Help Project

Using Statuses to Mark Imported Topics



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