TeamSite & RoboHelp

tekwriter

Will TeamSite integrate with RoboHelp?

Scenario: One company using two tools, TeamSite for website management and online products and RoboHelp for offline products. The company wants to be able to use TeamSite as single-source authoring and source for translations, but it also wants to use that same single-source db to produce help files for offline software products. If TeamSite can feed into RoboHelp to produce the offline help, how would it integrate?

Adam Stoller

Will TeamSite integrate with RoboHelp? Scenario: One company using two tools, TeamSite for website management and online products and RoboHelp for offline products. The company wants to be able to use TeamSite as single-source authoring and source for translations, but it also wants to use that same single-source db to produce help files for offline software products. If TeamSite can feed into RoboHelp to produce the offline help, how would it integrate?

I have no experience with RoboHelp so take the following with the proverbial grain of salt...

If RoboHelp uses a DB - and you know the schema that is used by the DB - you could create DCTs / DCRs to manage the content for the help and then use either DD or some other form of DB-data transfer (e.g.: Perl DBI, Java DBI) to transfer the content stored (and maintained) in the DCRs to the DB.

If RoboHelp uses files and directories - you can still use DCTs / DCRs to manage the content and then use PTs to format the content and place the results in files - which might be able to be read directly by RoboHelp through a mount point to the TS server - or you can use OD (or similar) to deploy the generated files into a directory / file system from which RoboHelp can access them.