If you are constantly publishing new versions of your help systems, then you'll want to take advantage of HelpLogic's ability to save your custom publisher settings. This enables the Publisher window to be pre-configured with your settings the next time you need to publish the same project. Your publisher settings are saved into your project database so EACH project can store its own unique publisher settings for EACH format (Web-based Help, Apple Help, MS HTML Help, etc.). To activate this time-saving feature is a simple 2-step process.
First, select Preferences from the HelpLogic application menu (Mac). In the Preferences window, there is a box called "Publisher" where you can select "Use Saved Custom Settings". Once that option is selected, click the Apply button to save your new Preferences. This tells HelpLogic to populate the Publisher window with the custom settings saved in your project database the next time you use the Publisher. Default settings are used until custom settings have been saved.
That first step tells HelpLogic to use the saved publisher settings from your project database, but now the second step is to tell HelpLogic which settings to save. The next time you use the Publisher, you'll notice a checkbox in the top right corner called "Save Current Settings". If you wish to save the settings for that Publisher session, make sure that checkbox is selected BEFORE clicking the Publish button. That tells HelpLogic to overwrite the existing saved settings with these new settings after publishing your help pages. If you do NOT wish to save the settings from the current Publisher session, leave that box unchecked, which in turn preserves your existing saved settings.
The advantage of using this 2-step process is the configuration flexibility it provides. If you need to revert back to using the default publisher settings WITHOUT erasing your saved settings, simply change the Preferences option back to "Use Default Settings" and leave the Publisher window's "Save Current Settings" unchecked. If you want to experiment publishing with modified versions of your saved settings WITHOUT overwriting your saved settings, simply select "Use Saved Custom Settings" in the Preferences window and leave the Publisher window's "Save Current Settings" unchecked.