FrameMaker's "Network File Locking" feature is very rudimentary.
All it does is check for the presence of a "lock" file with the same
name as the document but a secondary .lck extension in the same
directory as the document. If it finds a .lck file it displays a dialog
that tells you the file is locked; if there is no .lck file it opens the
document without a message and creates a .lck file so that anyone
else trying to open that file will see a "locked" message.
Bust since a CM or VM system makes a working copy of a file on
your local hard disk when you check it out, the .lck file mechanism
would only work if the CMS is "smart" enough to create a .lck file
on your local drive if and only if the file is locked in the repository.
My opinions only; I don;t speak for Intel.
Fred Ridder
Intel
Parsippany, NJ
From: "Patterson, Jan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Gordon McLean"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<[email protected]>
Subject: RE: FrameMaker and read-only files
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:21:28 -0500
Gordon --
Are you saying the setting for Network File Locking in
File>Preferences>General doesn't work in this situation?
jan.
jan e patterson
sr technical writer - environmental systems products - tucson, az
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Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 8:55 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: FrameMaker and read-only files
Hello all,
We are using Tortoise SVN to version control our FM files. It's mainly
working fine but we are having problems getting FrameMaker to detect a
locked file. You can set files to be locked when you edit them, but
FrameMaker doesn't seem to pay any attention to the lock UNTIL you try
and save the file. So you could open a locked file, work on it for an
hour or two and only be notified when you try and save it. Not ideal.
What we think is happening is that the file being locked is set to
'read-only', but FrameMaker isn't detecting that, as it has an internal
locking mechanism which looking for files that are currently being
edited by others. So it seems to be ignoring the read-only files.
My question is: Is there anyway to get FrameMaker to flag, ON OPEN,
whether a file is read-only or not. Or is this not a FrameMaker issue at
all but a 'nuance' of Tortoise?
Any and all suggestions gratefully welcomed. This isn't a showstopper
but very much in the 'annoyance' category!
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