Linking Stylesheets to Multiple Projects

[GarrettDRussell]

What I am looking to do is link one stylesheet to multiple Flare projects. The company I work for uses one styleesheet for all of it's projects. We have a Flare template that we have created that contains this stylesheet for every new project we create. What I am looking to do is put this stylesheet on our server and allow any new project with our template to use this single stylesheet from our server. I'd like for us to be able to edit our existing template by linking the new template with the stylesheet on our server. That way if we want to edit our stylesheet we can edit it once (from the server) and it will live update all of our projects "linked" to it. My question is, is this possible to do? Does Flare allow the linking to a stylesheet on a server like that. If so, when we make updates to the stylesheet file on the server, will it update all projects that have a template linking to this stylesheet file?

We would prefer this approach instead of what we are doing now and that is making an update to our stylesheet and having to replace all existing projects with the new updated stylesheet with the drag and drop method in Windows Explorer and clicking "copy and replace."

I think it's worth noting that we are just beginning to use Subversion so this may be a server option for us to use but we currently work mostly off a company wide server integrated into our Windows Explorer.

Thank you in advance for any future help!

-Garrett

[NorthEast]

I'd suggest creating a 'master' project with all the common files (stylesheets, table styles, images, page layouts, etc) that you will use across your projects.

You can then add a project import (also called global project linking) to each project, which you use to import (and reimport) the files you want from your master project.

See the help here: http://webhelp.madcapsoftware.com/flare ... inking.htm

I've also posted a tip on importing files here: http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewto ... 983#p94772

[GarrettDRussell]

HI Dave,

Thank you for your quick response. My coworker and I are going to give this a shot. It will probably take awhile for us to implement within the company but I will return with the results as soon as we know. Thanks again for your suggestion and help.

-Garrett