Re: [Framers] Best practices for multiple users

That's a good idea. We're considering persuading our manager to let us put the FrameMaker files on a networked drive so we can use FrameMaker's locking capability. Cheryl On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 5:01 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote: > If you're using Git, then you might want to create a wiki page wh

Re: [Framers] Best practices for multiple users

Thanks, Rick. Cheryl On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 3:40 PM, Rick Quatro 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 preserv

Re: [Framers] Best practices for multiple users

If you're using Git, then you might want to create a wiki page where people can informally check files out and in. On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Cheryl Magadieu wrote: > Thanks. Unfortunately, we are using Git, so we can't lock the files. > > Cheryl > > On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 3:31 PM, Robert

Re: [Framers] Best practices for multiple users

Thanks. Unfortunately, we are using Git, so we can't lock the files. Cheryl On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 3:31 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote: > The target document has to be open. If the other writer is working on > the target file, you could put in "add x-ref" placeholders and add > them later. > > Are

Re: [Framers] Best practices for multiple users

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

Re: [Framers] Best practices for multiple users

The target document has to be open. If the other writer is working on the target file, you could put in "add x-ref" placeholders and add them later. Are you using a source control system such as Subversion? That helps avoid problems. You check out the files you need to work on and check them back

Re: [Framers] Best practices for multiple users

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).