Using reference pages for document revision tracking

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3 total messages Started by Steve_R_Johnson Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:45

#2565

Author: Steve_R_Johnson
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:45

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I'm hearing a goofy idea at work about using Frame 7 reference pages for revision tracking on a document. I think the idea is to create a reference page and put a revision tracking table on that page.

My impression is that reference pages aren't for users to muck with very much. Template updates could affect them, future Frame upgrades could affect them, etc.

Is anyone else out there doing something similar and does it work?

Re: Using reference pages for document revision tracking

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Author: Arnis
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:37

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Steve,

Reference pages are FM's "junk drawer" where you can stash all sorts of stuff for use (or non-use) in your documents. Some Framescript techniques place info in tables on Reference pages for private use, so the idea isn't out of line or "goofy" by any stretch.

Re: Using reference pages for document revision tracking

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Author: Ann_Rudawski
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:23

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I can see a problem with your approach if you import formats from one file to many files. You can easily overwrite the revision information.

Say you make a reference page called "REVS" for all your book chapters and begin populating the revisions. At some point in time, somebody imports the formats (including reference pages) from chapter 3 to all the other files in the book. All the reference pages named "REVS" will be overwritten with the chapter 3 revision information.

A way ensure against overwriting would be to give a unique name to each file's revision page (REVSch1, REVSch2, etc.); however, you may end up with multiple, unused, outdated reference pages in each file. They won't cause any harm (except maybe causing confusion when updating the rev info), but may bloat your file size.

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