In ClickHelp, you have various options on how to handle the multiple versions of your documentation depending on your needs. Here are the most common approaches:
- If you don't plan to update older versions, you can create several publications from the same project. You can see an example of this approach in the following topic of our User Manual: Creating Multi-version Manual.
This way, you will need to maintain only one project while keeping all older publication versions available for your readers. This approach will work fine if you need to make occasional changes to the older versions or don't need to change them at all. If you need to change a specific old publication version, you go directly to this publication as an author and make changes there. - You can copy a project each time you need to start a new version for active development of multiple versions. With this approach, you will have a single project per single version, and every project will have only one publication. You'll be making changes to the version-specific projects and then publishing a specific project to update its publication.
You can use any of these approaches or even combine them — create a new project copy for each major version and keep minor versions under the same project as publications.
And there are more features like the Partial Update mode or the Rename Project option, which can help you manage multi-version documentation for your particular use case.