by Kevin Siegel
Adobe RoboHelp is a wonderful help authoring tool. But it will never be confused with a high-powered project management application like Microsoft Project. However, you might be pleasantly surprised to learn that you can add some project-management type information to your project topics. Once added to the topics, Status information can be viewed in a handy report via Tools > Reports > Project Status.
Show the Properties of any RoboHelp topic. On the Status tab, you'll find a fair amount of information you can add to any topic such as Status, Priority code, number of hours spent working on the topic and even a handy To Do List.
But check out the To Do List (shown below).
You'll notice that the standard items are represented on the To Do List (First Draft, Tested, etc). Nice. But it's a good bet that the list doesn't have an item or two that you need. I'd tell you to go ahead and click the Customize button and add your own items to the list, but there isn't a Customize button anywhere to be seen. Bummer! Thankfully, it's easy to customize the To Do List. The only problem is that the location of the feature isn't obvious.
Choose File > Project Settings. On the General tab, click the Manage button to the right of the To Do List area. Click the Add button, type the name of the Item you'd like to add and press [Enter].
The next time you access the Status tab, you'll see your new items in the To Do List. It really doesn't get any easier than that. And, as mentioned earlier, when you create a Project Status report, information you add to the Status tab will appear.
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