Conditional Build Tags allow you to generate myriad versions of your Help System for an unlimited number of user groups. However, one thing you might want to do is reuse Conditional Build Tags used in one project with another.
It seems like a simple process to reusing Conditional Build Tags would be to export the tags in one project to a Tags file and then simply import that file into any project needing the tags. The problem is that none of the versions of RoboHelp (including version 7 and the just-released version 8) include an export Conditional Build Tags feature. So what's a Help Author to do? Read on…
There are two ways to get the Conditional Build Tags used in a RoboHelp project. Both methods involve the rhbuildtag.apj file found in all RoboHelp projects (the file is only valuable if you have created your own conditions, or edited the two defaults that come with new projects).
- Open the rhbuildtag.apj file containing the Conditional Build Tags you want to use in NotePad
- Copy the tags containing the specific conditions you want to reuse to the clipboard
- Open the rhbuildtag.apj file in the other project and paste
The simpler route, if you don't mind losing any build tags in the other project, is to copy rhbuildtag.apj from one project and paste/replace the file in the project folder of the other project.
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