External Resources

[hoss]

Hi,
I'm just looking into reorganising several projects for single-source reasons.
Primary goals are:
1. Avoid repetitive storing in each project of common images (source control & storage space issue)
2. central storage of those images such that if modified it will cascade into each project where they are used.

I started to implement a common image folder, and insert each image as an external resource.
But i notice that it still copies the image into the project folder, this negates my point 1.

Am i missing something?, or is this the only way that Flare will do it?

[SteveS]

Hi Hoss,

You might want to investigate global project linking, that way you can maintain the images in a master project.

HTH

Steve

[DocuWil]

I thought that global linking still copies the images to your project.

[hoss]

I remember comparing the function of global project linking and external resources when i was on a course recently.
It seemed that ER fitted what i needed to do better.
IIRC when using GPL the changes to a file are propagates both directions no? and as DocuWil says, they are also copied locally. also it seems that GPL is much heavier to set up that ER.
I really want one master location for the commonly reused images & snippets, 1 variable file, which i can use accross all/many projects.
Is there no way to achieve this without these files getting copied multiple times into multiple projects? that doesnt sound like single sourcing to me... ;(