Organizing Source Documents Using Groups
You can perform the following actions with source documents and groups in ePublisher:
Creating Top-Level Groups
By default, ePublisher creates a top-level group based on the name of the project when you add your first source document to your project. There must always be at least one top-level group in Document Manager in order to add source documents to a project. You can create additional top-level groups if you want to further organize your source documents or create merged help systems, or multivolume help. For more information about creating merged help systems, see Merging Top-level Groups (Multivolume Help).
To create a top-level group
  1. On the Project menu, click New Group. ePublisher creates and displays a new top-level group in Document Manager.
  2. Type a name for the new group.
  3. Drag the new top-level group to its appropriate position above, below, or between an existing top-level group in Document Manager.
Creating Subgroups
You can create subgroups in Document Manager to organize the source documents in a group. By organizing your source documents into subgroups, you can organize how you want to display your source documents in Document Manager and how you want content to display in your generated output.
To create a subgroup
  1. In Document Manager, select the group to which you want to add a subgroup. You can add a subgroup to a top-level group or to an existing subgroup.
  2. On the Project menu, click New Group. ePublisher displays the new group in Document Manager.
  3. Type a name for the new group.
Renaming Groups
You can rename existing top-level groups and subgroups in Document Manager. For example, when you create a new project, by default ePublisher creates a new group based on the project name. However, you can change the default name of the group in Document Manager.
To rename a group in Document Manager
  1. In Document Manager, click twice on the group you want to rename.
  2. Type a new name for the group.
  3. Press ENTER or click outside of the typing area to change the name.
Rearranging Source Documents in Groups
Once you have added source documents to your project and placed your source documents into groups within Document Manager, you can rearrange source documents by moving the source documents within the same group or by moving source documents to a new location in a new group.
If you have a FrameMaker book (.bk or .book file) in a group, you can move the FrameMaker book to a different group, but you cannot move an individual FrameMaker document (.fm file) to a group if it is included in the .book file. .fm files that belong to a .book file must remain in the same group as the .book file. If you want to move a .fm file to a different group than the .book file is in, first remove the .fm file from the book, scan the book, and add the .fm file, which is no longer part of the book, to the appropriate book.
To rearrange source documents in groups
  1. If you want to change the order of source documents within a group, complete the following steps:
    1. In Document Manager, click the source document you want to move.
    2. Drag the source document to the desired location within the group.
  2. If you want to move a source document to a different group, complete the following steps:
    1. In Document Manager, click the document you want to move.
    2. Drag the source document to the desired location within the new group.
Removing Groups
If you no longer want to use a group, you can remove the group from Document Manager. When you remove a group from Document Manager, ePublisher removes any source documents associated with the group from your project.
Note: ePublisher does not delete the source documents from your computer. ePublisher only removes the source documents from the project.
To remove a group
  1. In Document Manager, select the group you want to remove.
  2. On the Edit menu, click Remove.
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Last modified date: 01/28/2026