Extracting copy of RoboHelp project from Visual SourceSafe

["Sally J Kentfield" <SJK -at- albany -dot- co -dot- uk>]

I have been enjoying reading the techwr-l mailing list for the last
month or so. I am a relatively new technical author, and the only
technical writer in the company, so I have really been enjoying reading
your tips, tricks, thoughts and suggestions.

I would appreciate your help.

I am struggling a little with RoboHelp X5 (HTML view, not Word) and
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0. I am looking at re-organising  and
re-branding some of our help files, and I would like to play about with
non-live copies. So far I have managed this by using the KeyWorks
KeyTool to extract out a copy of the files from the compiled CHM, and
then create a new RoboHelp project from those files. This is not an
ideal method.

I have tried making a local copy in a folder other than my local
SourceSafe working folder (both using 'get local copy' from within
SourceSafe, and copy and paste in Windows Explorer), but the second copy
is still tied in to the same SourceSafe copy. What I would ideally like
is to make a second copy, and then disconnect that copy from SourceSafe
so that I can do what I like with the copy, without effecting the
SourceSafe copy. When I tried using the 'remove from sourcesafe' option
from within RoboHelp it deleted the file from SourceSafe.

I am finding the rigidity of RoboHelp's connection with Visual
SourceSafe to be a little frustrating at times.

Has anyone any ideas? Can I extract a copy of a project from Visual
SourceSafe without deleting the Visual SourceSafe copy? or is the
KeyTools CHM extraction method best? 

Yours sincerely,
Sally Kentfield (sjk at albany.co.uk)
Technical Author
Albany Software, UK

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