Projects to share the same styles - Enforcing Consistency

[raghunomix]

In H&m, how do I standardize style formatting (for heading, captions, table, notes, references, etc.)to be used and organized as a common shared repository so different Manual projects can share the same styles.

Your help is appreciated!

warm regards,
Raghu

[Tim Green]

Hi Raghu,

Have a look at style repositories. That is exactly what you need here:

http://helpandmanual.com/help/index.htm ... tories.htm

This allows you to store your styles in a special external project with the .hmxr extension. Depending on how you set it up, the styles can then only be edited in the repository.

[Kam Chow]

Does it work for Configurations such as Project Search Path, Text Variables, Custom Builds, etc...?

[Tim Green]

Does it work for Configurations such as Project Search Path, Text Variables, Custom Builds, etc...?

No, those remain editable. It is only for the styles.

[Kam Chow]

Does it work for Configurations such as Project Search Path, Text Variables, Custom Builds, etc...?

No, those remain editable. It is only for the styles.

It would be nice to have a way to have a master control of these settings like the style repository because sometime one would want to do a mass change these settings. It suffers from the same hassle that one would need to go into every single project file to change these settings. Although I agree some settings should stay local, but some need to be synchronized to a repository.