The company I'm working for creates and sells software. The software suite is composed of many programs that all work together. The business this software is created for requires offline available help. The help is distributed with the installer of the software and displayed in a browser.
To maintain these help pages we use Confluence. All the help is put in one Confluence space called Help. In this space, all programs are listed with help pages per program. The structure looks like this:
- Help
- Program1
- Program1 - File menu
- Program1 - View menu
- ..
- Program2
- Program2 - File menu
- Program2 - View menu
- ..
The current way of affairs is to do a manual export to HTML for each program listed in the help space.
This goes like this:
- In the Space Tools, click Content Tools
- Open the Export tab
- Select HTML export and click Next
- Select Custom Export
- Uncheck "Include comments"
- Uncheck the whole Help space
- Check the program help that should be exported, so Program1 in this case
- Click Export
- Wait for the Export to complete
- Click "Download Here"
- Unpack the downloaded zip and place it in a folder on the server, ready for the installer
So the process is time consuming, and brain dead work since there are more than 50 programs that have to be done like this.
Question: Is there a way to do this automatically? Either per subspace (Program1, Program2, etc) or the whole Help space at once?
If an automatic space export can be done we could just split up the current space to suit our needs. We would like to make this part of our nightly build process, to always have up-to-date help available for our installer.
