Hi Amy, Subversion is a good option. We have been using it for long, and we are a team of 20+ writers. We too use FM.
Thanks and regards, Sebastian A On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Amy Super <ASuper at confluence.com> wrote: > Hi there, **** > > Does anyone out there use a revision control system? We are in dire need > of it, as my company has recently gone up to 3 writers (from 1) and we?re > afraid of overwriting work.**** > > ** ** > > Our document repository is made up of standalone FM docs with linked > images, FM books with linked images, and a pile of giant old Word docs that > have both embedded and referenced images.**** > > ** ** > > These are the solutions I know a little about:**** > > **? **Perforce ? used at my last job, since that?s what the > developers used. I think it has a bit of a steep learning curve for this > environment, though, given that I had to save my files out as .mif before > checking them in. I?m hoping for support of binary files instead.**** > > **? **SharePoint/TFS ? we have it here. But our version of > SharePoint is too old for FrameMaker to integrate. That means I can?t > access any linked files without checking them all out. Upgrading SharePoint > is not happening any time soon. I have also read a fair number of unhappy > stories on the Adobe forums about the FM/SP combination.**** > > **? **Subversion ? a friend recently installed this at his > company, and so far it looks promising. Does anyone use it?**** > > **? **Documentum ? just had a terrible experience trying to get > them to respond to a live chat. I know it?s an option for integrating FM.* > *** > > ** ** > > Thoughts are greatly appreciated, as I found out today I need to have a > candidate list ready by Friday. **** > > ** ** > > Thanks!**** > > Amy**** > > ** ** > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as seba.bicstpt at gmail.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/seba.bicstpt%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20120922/afe77d7b/attachment.html>
