[Framers] Best practices for multiple users

[Cheryl Magadieu]

Thanks, Rick.

Cheryl

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 3:40 PM, Rick Quatro <rick at rickquatro.com> wrote:

> Hi Cheryl,
>
> When you insert a cross-reference, you have to have the other document
> open.
> FrameMaker inserts a Cross-Ref marker into the target document and so you
> have to be able to save that document to preserve the marker. One approach
> would be to add some kind of text at each location where you want to have a
> cross-reference. You could tag it with a special character or condition
> format to make it easy to find later. Then at a designated time, when no
> one
> else is using the other files, you could go through and replace the text
> with real cross-references. Please let me know if you have any questions or
> comments.
>
> Rick
>
> Rick Quatro
> Carmen Publishing Inc.
> rick at frameexpert.com
> 585-366-4017
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Framers <framers-bounces+rick=rickquatro.com at lists.frameusers.com>
> On
> Behalf Of Cheryl Magadieu
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2018 3:16 PM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: [Framers] Best practices for multiple users
>
> 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.
>
> Cheryl
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