Help -- Local Paths & Resource Documents

[TonyN]

Hi All,

I have a number of people working on a project and want them to all be able to generate the the documents that are stored as "Resource Documents" or "Defined Documents"  Ho do I get the "Local Paths" capability to work against a "Resource Document"?

I have used "Apply Path" against various types with out success.

TiA,
Tony

[Geert Bellekens]

Hi Tony,

It might be my limited knowledge, or it might be the somewhat concise description of the problem, but I don't understand what you are trying to achieve, or what the problem is you are facing.

Geert

[RoyC]

I am not sure what the problem is either. You have a shared model? In one of the shared models we use here, the Resource Documents are available in the Resources window for all users to select and generate reports from.

[TonyN]

HI All,

Sorry - I suppose I need to be a bit clearer.  A resource document contains a path to the file it is going to generate.  This path is specific to the machine it was created on.  If the model is then opened on another machine then path wont work and the doc wont generate.  Hence I need path to be expanded from a local path variable (or better yet a relative path from the model open location and create the path if it does not exist).  

Regards,
Tony

[Geert Bellekens]

Tony,

That means that the documents then end up in the "Defined documents" folder in the Resources view?

I've never really used that before.

Geert

[skiwi]

Tony

I do know what you mean.
And know that EA does not support the idea of a Resource Document (found in Resources under Document Generation > Defined Documents) to have a separate path per user, or to use a local path in the resource document location.
I have had to make sure that there is a common network share for all users to generate their document into.

[TonyN]

HI Skiwi,

Thanks for the response and it is very frustrating the LOCAL PATHs are not supported for defined documents.

@Sparx Systems.  when and how quick can we have this please?