Let’s say I want to exclude certain topics including all their children from a test publication run (to save time, and to avoid getting error messages from issues in these topics that I don’t want or need to fix right now).
I cannot just set the topmost topic of the branch to "None" – if I do that, the children are still processed and produce error messages (even if the parent topic does not appear in a TOC).
I could of course fully expand the parent topic and exclude all children as well by setting the include options to "None", but several of the children have individual include options set which would get eliminated. I could apply an additional "Ignore" build option (that I don’t select for the test publication), but then I would still include the topics with individual build options that I must activate because they are needed in the topics that I actually want to test publish, and this would require special care not to mix up anything when undoing the "Ignore" option.
I am probably missing something basic here, but Is there an easy way to exclude a whole branch of topics by just modifying the settings of the topmost topic of this branch?