It's been a while since I've used the help and manual software. I have some old topics that I copied from one chapter to another but have an identical topic ID, when I then update any text within one topic it's automatically updated on the other.
I have created some new topics and cannot have identical topic ID's any longer, this means that if i amend the text in one of the topics I will have to duplicate this by amending on the other one as well.
Duplicated Topic ID's
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Re: Duplicated Topic ID's
Hi Wendy,
http://www.helpandmanual.com/help/index ... ltiref.htm
If you really had duplicate IDs on separate topics you wouldn't get identical edits in both, and you would have serious errors when publishing.
You don't actually have duplicate IDs at all then: You have two TOC entries pointing to the same topic file. See here for details:I have some old topics that I copied from one chapter to another but have an identical topic ID, when I then update any text within one topic it's automatically updated on the other.
http://www.helpandmanual.com/help/index ... ltiref.htm
If you really had duplicate IDs on separate topics you wouldn't get identical edits in both, and you would have serious errors when publishing.
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Re: Duplicated Topic ID's
Many thanks for your prompt reply, I knew I'd done it somehow it was just a long time ago.... I couldn't do it via adding a new topic as TOC option wasn't there but it's worked fine using drag and drop. Thanks again