In the HelpServer Workbench authors can use media files in topics and import an entire folder tree with files.

In case your project requires a rather huge amount of media files and/or multiple authors are involved it is highly recommended to preload the project gallery with as many of the required files as possible. Afterwards the authors just need to select the required files from the gallery.

This is a much better approach then having the authors to select files from their disk because each file loaded from a disk is a new occurrence of the file in HelpServer’s database. So, if the same file is loaded twice from a disk, then two occurrences of the file remain in the database. Files in the gallery on the other hand are reusable and maintainable in the gallery .

You can load an entire folder tree with all kinds of files from you disk to a project gallery in one operation or you can also perform a file-by-file load.