serious problem with users FM 9

[Scott Prentice]

If you import your stub file into the structapps.fm file in the main  
FM install dir rather than the structapps file in the user appdata  
area it should be available to all users on a compter. With FM9 there  
are two structapps files.

...scott

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On Nov 26, 2009, at 4:47 AM, wim at idtp.eu wrote:

> Well, we've made a construct where the customized struct apps are
> stored on a shared network drive and these are imported as text inset
> in the default struct apps file. So maintenance on these apps is not a
> problem.
>
> Only when we made a new FrameMaker install and modified the struct
> apps file for this (imported the text insets) the new apps were not
> available for new users.....
>
>
> -- 
> Vriendelijke groet,
>
> Wim Hooghwinkel
>
> Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) in FrameMaker
>
> iDTP
>
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>
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>
>
>
> Citeren Yves Barbion <yves.barbion at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi Wim
>>
>> Indeed, this is a (maintenance) problem. I've been looking in the FM
>> Preferences and in the Help too whether this can be changed, but I  
>> haven't
>> found anything yet.
>>
>> Maybe you could try this workaround: import your struct app as a  
>> text inset
>> in the user's struct app. If you do so, you may have to change or  
>> replace
>> some variables (for example $STRUCTDIR) as well. And you may have  
>> to do this
>> for each user.
>>
>> Good luck.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Yves Barbion
>> www.scripto.nu
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp  
>> <wim at idtp.eu>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Does any of you recognise this: for a client I created a FM app  
>>> (FM9) and
>>> modified the struct apps file for this. Now an employee logs in on  
>>> the same
>>> computer but with a different user name - and the modified struct  
>>> aps is
>>> not
>>> found. Apparently it has been stored in the local user folder of  
>>> the person
>>> who logged in when we modified the struct apps file. So it seems  
>>> that
>>> anytime someone makes a change (normally only the admin of course)  
>>> the
>>> central struct apps file must be replaced manually. Is there no  
>>> other
>>> option
>>> for this - like deactivating the local struct apps file in the  
>>> user folder?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> How does FM read the struct apps - does it first read the struct  
>>> apps file
>>> in the FM Installation folder and then the one in the user folder  
>>> and what
>>> happens with conflicting settings?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Kind regards, vriendelijke groet,
>>>
>>> Wim Hooghwinkel
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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