[Framers] Best practices for multiple users

[Robert Lauriston]

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 in when you're done. While you have a file checked out, it's
locked so no one else can accidentally write to it. (Most source
control systems except Git have locks.)

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 12:15 PM, Cheryl Magadieu <cmagadieu at gmail.com> wrote:
> I work at a small company, and there are two of us who are using
> FrameMaker. At the moment, we are both working on the same book; each of us
> has about 6 chapters. This is the first time we've worked on the same book
> at the same time.
>
> The challenge we've run into is how to make the workflow easier when we
> have to create cross-references from one chapter to another. Some of the
> chapters will have cross-references to most of the other chapters in the
> book. Is there a way to do this without modifying both Document A (which
> has the cross-reference) Document B (the document the cross-ref is pointing
> point to)? When I add a cross-ref from Document A to Document B, it looks
> like FrameMaker inserts a cross-ref marker in Document B. If I don't save
> that change to Document B and then update the book references later, do I
> then have to manually fix the cross-reference? Maybe we're overlooking
> something obvious--is there a better way to share files and work on
> cross-references?
>
> I should mention that the FrameMaker files are not on a network drive, as
> our manager does not like that approach.
>
> We would appreciate any recommendations for making this easier.