Git commit c57ee299bbd05d2640deb0166104af35ae3f5b5a by Dag Andersen. Committed on 11/07/2022 at 09:34. Pushed by danders into branch 'master'.
Improve docs M +26 -1 doc/plan/managingresources.docbook https://invent.kde.org/office/calligraplan/commit/c57ee299bbd05d2640deb0166104af35ae3f5b5a diff --git a/doc/plan/managingresources.docbook b/doc/plan/managingresources.docbook index c37911e7..e4f13b9c 100644 --- a/doc/plan/managingresources.docbook +++ b/doc/plan/managingresources.docbook @@ -1,10 +1,35 @@ <sect2 id="description"><title>Description</title> <para>You can create resources for a project using the <link linkend="resource-editor">Resource Editor</link> and <link linkend="work-and-vacation-editor">Work and Vacation Editor</link>. </para> - <para>However, if you are going to use the same resources in many projects (which is often the case) it is more convenient to maintain resources in a separate file. The best way to do this is to create your resources file first and then set up &plan; to always load this file when creating a new project. + <para>However, if you are going to use the same resources in many projects (which is often the case) it is more convenient to maintain resources in a separate file. + The best way to do this is to create your resources file first and then set up &plan; to always load this file when creating a new project. + </para> +</sect2> +<sect2 id="shared-resources"><title>Shared Resources</title> + <para>Shared Resources are resources that can be shared between project and thus facilitates resource levelling across projects. </para> <para>If you are managing projects that use totally different resource pools you can create multiple resource files, but one project can only refer to one resource file. </para> <para>You can select the resource file to use when creating a new project. + The resources can be automatically loaded on opening your project or you can update manually by selecting + <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu><guimenuitem>Update Shared Resources</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. + </para> + <para>Note that the project can still be opened even if the resource file is not available. + </para> + <para>If anything has been deleted in the shared resource file, you will be presented with a dialog where you can select how to treat the deleted items. + </para> + <para> + You can select if an item shall be: + <itemizedlist> + <listitem><para><emphasis>Removed:</emphasis> Removes the item from your project. + This is the action you would normally select as it keeps your project in sync with the resource file. + However if the item is used in your project, you may want to convert to a local item.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem><para><emphasis>Converted:</emphasis> Converts the item to local item.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem><para><emphasis>Kept:</emphasis> Keeps the item as a shared item in your project. + Next time the resource file is loaded, you will be asked again how to treat the item.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> </para> </sect2>
