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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I have two concerns about putting a
structured app on a network drive:<br>
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- FrameMaker is rather intolerant of network latency. A
network-based structured app may be more crash-prone.<br>
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- 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.<br>
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Both of these issues, or their absence, should be easy to identify
through testing.<br>
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-Alan<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Alan Houser
Group Wellesley, Inc.
Consultant and Trainer, Technical Publishing
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On 12/15/14, 6:46 AM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jang@jang.nl">jang@jang.nl</a> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:1418643970087.59402.2804@webmail9" type="cite">Hello
Yves,
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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.<br>
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Kind regards</div>
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<div>Jang<br>
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Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 09:41:20 +0100<br>
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Hi group<br>
<br>
In theory, I guess it must be possible to share a
structured application on<br>
a network drive (or a Google drive or dropbox). Is there
anyone who has<br>
done this? Any good or bad experiences you wish to share?<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
<br>
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