Possible to edit "robots" tags in generated web help files?

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Swede
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Possible to edit "robots" tags in generated web help files?

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Hello!
Many of our help files are published as web help. We would like to change the setting in the "robots" tag in the published web help (see image below) to <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">.
robots tag.png
We'd like to do this to stop web search robots from indexing the helpfile and exposing it to searches e.g. via Google or Bing. Can this be done in H+M?
Follow-up question: can H+M generate a robots.txt file in the folder where the web help file is created? This would also help us to block indexing.
Thanks!
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Martin Wynne
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Re: Possible to edit "robots" tags in generated web help files?

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Hi,

You can edit the HTML at Configuration > HTML Page Templates > Default. If you use a skin, you need to do this in the skin, not the project.

If you create a robots.txt file and add it to you Baggage files, it will be included in your Webhelp output.

Martin.
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Re: Possible to edit "robots" tags in generated web help files?

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Thanks for the information!
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