I'm just starting a project to update a help file using Help Builder. I want to have someone help me on this project but am wondering how we can work on separate parts of the help file and then be able to combine them into one project when finished?
Thanks, Chris
I'd highly recommend looking at Rick's new Documentation Monster. It addresses so many of the quirks of WWHB and is much more suitable for collaborative work.
What are you trying to create as output? HTML Help? Then Help Builder is the only option you have.
However i would recommend to skip that in favor of building Web based HTML help, and explicitly linking to HTML content on the Web from the Web site output built by Help Builder or Documentation Monster. HTML Help has a myriad of issues for security and more importantly very limited HTML feature support.
As Richard mentioned, Help Builder is being sunsetted as it's really getting long in the tooth. Documentation Monster is meant to be its replacement and it's getting close to release but is still in pre-release (you can try it however). It does not produce HTML Help however, because HTML Help requires IE 11 rendering (actually IE 8 rendering unless you hack the registry) and that is not supported by the new templates. Output options are a plain, static HTML based Web site, PDF, Self-Contained Windows Viewer and packaged HTML output.
If you're planning on building HTML based output (ie. for Web, PDF or Viewer) then Documentation Monster is the way forward. Since you just bought your licenses recently you can swap out for free, but as I said DM's not quite in full release - there are still a few rough edges to work out (hopefully in the next month or two).
That said I'm using it for all my documentation now, for Markdown Monster, WebSurge, Web Connection and Client Tools plus several .NET libraries. All those docs have been updated to use Documentation Monster now.
If you want to check it out go here:
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