Thanks, Rick. Cheryl
On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 3:40 PM, Rick Quatro <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > _______________________________________________ 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]
