FrameMaker and Version Control Software -- PDM

[Flato, Gillian]

Is anyone using Frame and SolidWorks PDM? How is that working for you?

Thank you,
 

Gillian Flato
Technical Writer (Software)
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From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Fred Ridder
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 11:47 AM
To: alison.craig at ultrasonix.com; mike.feimster at acstechnologies.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: FrameMaker and Version Control Software


To continue my previous thought...
 
Also note that "the tricky bit with multiple people" really isn't a problem, either, because the checked-out files you will be working with will typically be on your local drive rather than a network drive where other people could potentially be trying to use them simultaneously. And even if the multiple writers *do* for some reason keep their working directories on a network drive, each user will typically have *their own* working directory (their own set of checked-out copies) since that is how CMS systems are generally designed to be used. (The whole point of using a system like SVN for software development is to allow multiple developers to work independently on the same code base and resolve the differences at a later point in the development process.) So because there is no issue of multiple users sharing the *same* set of working files, there is still no need for the rudimentary Network File Locking scheme that FrameMaker provides. 
 
-Fred Ridder
 


From: docudoc at hotmail.com
To: alison.craig at ultrasonix.com; mike.feimster at acstechnologies.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: FrameMaker and Version Control Software
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 14:38:46 -0400




Alison Craig wrote:
 
> Thanks for the additional information. I'm always impressed with the detail I get when I ask this list a question!
> 
> You say "We configure it to exclude lck files". As R&D has yet to set me up on SVN (we're about to do an interim software/Addendum release) I don't have any experience with SVN yet. What does excluding lck files gain you?
> 
> As for the tricky bit with multiple people - as a lone writer, this isn't a problem I currently have to face. I guess I'll cross that bridge when I come to it!

As I noted in posting to the list within the last couple of days, if you are the only person who can be using the checked-out files (i.e. if you are a lone writer as you say you are), there is *NO* benefit to using FrameMaker's "Network File Locking", which is the feature that generates and then deletes all those stupid .lck files. Turn off the Network File Locking feature and you don't need to worry about excluding .lck files (or why you would want to ecxclude them) because they won't exist in the first place.
 
-Fred Ridder
 
 
 		 	   		  
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