Hi Cheryl, When you insert a cross-reference, you have to have the other document open. FrameMaker inserts a Cross-Ref marker into the target document and so you have to be able to save that document to preserve the marker. One approach would be to add some kind of text at each location where you want to have a cross-reference. You could tag it with a special character or condition format to make it easy to find later. Then at a designated time, when no one else is using the other files, you could go through and replace the text with real cross-references. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.
Rick Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. [email protected] 585-366-4017 FrameMaker toy store: http://www.frameexpert.com/store -----Original Message----- From: Framers <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Cheryl Magadieu Sent: Friday, March 23, 2018 3:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Framers] Best practices for multiple users 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]
