Working with folders

The folders you create in the Project Manager are just like the ones you see in the Windows Explorer. These folders reside on your system and support relative paths — paths from the project folder to files in your folders. This folder structure makes it easier to organize your files.

Your custom folders are displayed in the Project Manager with a folder icon and are organized in a hierarchical fashion to indicate that a folder stores other folders and files.

You can access the content of any of these folders from Project Manager, as well as from the Windows Explorer, My Computer, or other utilities that display the content of your system. Be sure to only use Project Manager to move or rename files and folders so your links and other topic references are updated appropriately. (The Windows Explorer cannot update links and other project information.)

All of your custom folders will appear as subfolders within the following folders in the Project Manager:

When you create a custom folder, it is displayed as a subfolder when any of the above folders are open. The files that are listed within these custom folders are filtered, based on the type of folder that is open. For example, HTML Files and its subfolders display HTML topics (.HTM files) and Images displays .JPG and .GIF files.

You can nest folders within subfolders to further organize your files, and you can move these nested folders in and out of the hierarchy whenever necessary. Only folders that do not contain files can be removed from your project.

 

Notes:

  • Versions of RoboHELP prior to 7.0 supported a flat folder structure. As a result, any "custom" folders you created in the HTML Files folder were only accessible when your project was open (you did not see this folder structure in the Windows Explorer).

  • When you first open a project that was created in an earlier version, RoboHELP prompts you to convert custom folders to standard folders or to move all HTML Help topics to your top-level folder (project folder). For more information, see Before opening existing projects.

  • If you view your updated files in the Windows Explorer, all standard folders are saved in your project folder. The files you save in these folders are listed in the appropriate folder. The Project Manager's default folders — HTML Files (Topics), Images, Multimedia, Style Sheets, Baggage Files, etc. are not displayed because they are "virtual" (they are only visible when your project is open in RoboHELP).

  • If you do not create custom folders, all of your files are listed at the root of the main project folder.