Opening book files without opening the book

[Jeff Coatsworth]

I haven't found that to be a problem in FM9 p250 - when Writer A is in Chapter1.fm and makes a cross-ref to Writer B's Chapter2.fm, Writer A gets the dialog about Chapter2.fm being edited, but you can choose View and place your x-ref anyway. When they both get saved, it seems to preserve the x-ref fine. 

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From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Steve Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 12:34 PM
To: Timothy DeWees
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Opening book files without opening the book

It's just a matter of logistics. If Writer A opens Chapter1.fm and inserts a cross-reference to Chapter2.fm which is currently opened by Writer B, then that will fail.

To succesfully be able to insert an inter-chapter cross-reference, Writer A needs all chapters to be writeable. After inserting the cross-reference, Writer A must save all chapters. Frame puts a cross-ref marker on the heading to which the cross-reference is made.

An easy way around this is to coordinate the placing of cross-references at certain times during the project.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Timothy DeWees <tdewees at charter.net> wrote:
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> I am currently working with a couple of other people who are new to 
> framemaker. I've been using frame for a bit over two years on a near 
> daily basis. I use the practice of always opening a frame book before 
> editing individual files within that book. My concern is that by 
> working in an individual file without opening the book, that errors 
> such as broken cross-references, re-mapping of text insets, or other 
> errors may occur. Is my concern founded, or is it ok to edit 
> individual book files without ever opening the book?  If anyone has a 
> link to a discussion of this topic, that would be particularly helpful.
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