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Setting up a Network Project |
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Setting up a Network Project |
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Most users will wish to set-up Projects on a Network server so that users working on multiple client workstations can access and share Project configurations concurrently.
To set-up a Project on a Network server:
Create a Project and its associated Styles.
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Important! To avoid file conflict errors, it is also necessary to change the output path for the Message file for each Style in the Project configuration, so that the file will be written locally e.g. to C:\TEMP, when users attempt to use the same Style concurrently. ISOGEN will then output the Message file it creates to this local folder instead of to the same folder on the Network server. |
Use Windows Explorer to create the Message file path e.g. a folder named C:\TEMP, if one does not exist.
Then for each Style in the Project, add a definition to the Supplementary ReportFiles object's ISOGENFiles collection, which sets the Message path to C:\TEMP\Message filename, using an appropriate filename for the Message file, e.g. Spool.mes for the Spool Style:
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Tip: The Reports Wizard can be used to set the Message file path. |
Finally, set the drive on which the Isometric directory and Project to be connected to resides to be shared, and set the required permissions for the share.
To connect to a Network project:
Click the Create Isometric Directory icon.
Using the Browse for Folder dialogue, browse to the network path where the Isometric directory to be connected to resides, then select the Project, then press OK.
The Project appears in the Project View Panel:
See the Options topic for a description of use of mapped drives and UNC paths for network projects.
