That's not going to work - whenever you have Doc A open and want to place a xref to Doc B (that they have open), you need to be able to open it to place the xref. Doc B also gets an internal ref back to the spot in Doc A (that's why you get offered the chance to save Doc B after xref-ing to it).
When I had this scenario happen, we were both side by side & could take turns saving our work in a doc when the other person needed to create an xref. If you're not anywhere close to be able to coordinate this, perhaps you could do the "hot potato" method - only 1 of you has all the docs and book open & in their possession at one time; you take turns handing it off to each other. I do this with one of my projects with the main author over in Pakistan (I'm in North America). We zip it up and pass it back and forth so that there's only 1 authoritative source for the project. ________________________________ From: Framers <framers-bounces+jeff.coatsworth=jonasclub....@lists.frameusers.com> on behalf of Cheryl Magadieu <[email protected]> Sent: March 23, 2018 3:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Framers] Best practices for multiple users [This message was identified as a phishing scam. Learn about phishing at http://aka.ms/LearnAboutPhishing] I work at a small company, and there are two of us who are using FrameMaker. At the moment, we are both working on the same book; each of us has about 6 chapters. This is the first time we've worked on the same book at the same time. The challenge we've run into is how to make the workflow easier when we have to create cross-references from one chapter to another. Some of the chapters will have cross-references to most of the other chapters in the book. Is there a way to do this without modifying both Document A (which has the cross-reference) Document B (the document the cross-ref is pointing point to)? When I add a cross-ref from Document A to Document B, it looks like FrameMaker inserts a cross-ref marker in Document B. If I don't save that change to Document B and then update the book references later, do I then have to manually fix the cross-reference? Maybe we're overlooking something obvious--is there a better way to share files and work on cross-references? I should mention that the FrameMaker files are not on a network drive, as our manager does not like that approach. We would appreciate any recommendations for making this easier. Cheryl _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to [email protected] Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to [email protected] _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to [email protected] Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to [email protected]
