An intranet is a network designed for information processing within a company or organization. Its uses include such services as document distribution, software distribution, access to databases, and training. Intranets usually use applications associated with the Internet, such as Web pages, Web browsers, FTP sites, email, newsgroups, and mailing lists, accessible only to those within the organization.
You can author content for intranets in RoboHELP. Follow these guidelines:
To get started quickly, select the intranet template that is available when you first set up the project. It provides you with a set of files that serves as the blueprint for designing and developing your information.
To work more efficiently, create custom folders and organize your files into manageable groups.
Design the topics and author your content in the WYSIWYG Editor.
If you have existing HTML files, you can import them into the project.
To enhance navigation capabilities, you can create and design a table of contents.
To enable users to find information, add keywords and build an index. Users can look up information based on the keywords they look up in the index.
You do not need to compile an HTML project if it's intended for an intranet site. When you are ready to distribute the information, you generate WebHelp. A complete set of source files is created and ready for distribution. All the files are copied into a single, easy-to-find folder for quick access.
Whenever you need to make updates, open the project in RoboHELP. Then, generate WebHelp again, so an updated set of source files is available to post (deploy) on your company's server.
Talk to your company's Webmaster about copying the files to your company's server for intranet access. For further information, see Posting WebHelp on a Web server.
Tip: Before you create your intranet project, see Help format features comparison. It provides information about all the Help and HTML features you can use with WebHelp files.