John said:
I would like to specify the path to the shared resource file as a relative
path so that I can move my project files to another directory and have the
files continue to be linked together. Can this be done?
The full path is stored (sigh). I've overcome it a number of ways for
workgroup use. The easiest to explain and doesn't rely on people to
remember too many techy things is to save the resource file into a *.mdb
file. Then define an ODBC connector to that *.mdb file on each computer
pointing to the "actual" file, regardless of file name. Then open the
resource files as an *.mdb file, e.g. "resources.mdb" and connect.
Project remembers the ODBC reference name. Setting up ODBC like this is
a one-time occurance.
The otherway for workgroups is for everyone to agree a common file
location that everyone has the right permissions for. On a current
project, that location strangely is c:\temp\abc as this is the only
location that everyone (multiple companies) has full path access to. All
the companies lock down fully access to the c: drive, and we couldn't
agree mapped lan drives. We store all the files in c:\temp\abc on
everyone's machine, and send around zipped copies. Periodically breaks
when people forget to store in the right place and edit from the "wrong"
place ... which then messes things up.
: setting up an
