structured application on a shared drive

[Alan Houser]

I have two concerns about putting a structured app on a network drive:

- FrameMaker is rather intolerant of network latency. A network-based 
structured app may be more crash-prone.

- FrameMaker's file locking is rather aggressive, so concurrency issues 
may arise. This is from memory, and I haven't tested it on FrameMaker 
12. I believe the structured app files are read and retained in memory 
without a filesystem lock, but I would want to confirm this.

Both of these issues, or their absence, should be easy to identify 
through testing.

-Alan
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Alan Houser
Group Wellesley, Inc.
Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing
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On 12/15/14, 6:46 AM, jang at jang.nl wrote:
> Hello Yves,
>
> Sorry for the late reply but I was busy doing other stuff. As Scott 
> Prentice has already answered, there should be no issues with using a 
> network drive for your structured app. I would like to give another 
> suggestion here, which might help to avoid unwanted side-effects of 
> offloading everything from your local computer.
>
> If you use a structapps file on your local computer, either in the 
> Program Folder or in your AppData space (I always use the latter as it 
> avoids various issues when I have to reinstall a fresh FM for whatever 
> reason), you could use a text inset in that structapps file that pulls 
> the specific structured application in from a file on a shared drive. 
> This allows you to mix your own local structured apps with some that 
> are shared between the team members but also allow you to continue 
> working when the network drive may be temporarily unavailable. 
> Depending on your requirements (how often is the shared structured 
> application updated), you may set this text inset to be automatically 
> or manually refreshed.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Jang
>>
>> Message: 10
>> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 09:41:20 +0100
>> From: Yves Barbion <yves.barbion at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:yves.barbion at gmail.com>>
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>> Hi group
>>
>> In theory, I guess it must be possible to share a structured 
>> application on
>> a network drive (or a Google drive or dropbox). Is there anyone who has
>> done this? Any good or bad experiences you wish to share?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>

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