Can I apply "read only" to my preference .xin file so that I only have access to "read write" rather then having the rest of the group have read write access. Since im the owner of the .xin file I want to have some control over who is addiding or deleting styles or features to the .xin file. Im currently using Microsoft Windows 7 with a Dell Precision T5500.
Thank you,
You can place it in a folder where everyone but you has read only access. Or if others have it open in read write access, you can ask them to switch it to read only -right click menu in the InRoads Explorer, and then you can switch it to read-write the same way.
Charles (Chuck) Rheault CADD Manager
MDOT State Highway Administration
Thank you CADDCOP!
Spoke to my IT pro and he told me that the preference file can be placed in a CADD Standard drive folder and he can set special parameters for example "read write" access to me and "read only" to the rest of group users.
Now, let me throw a wrench into the machine...
On occasion, a user might need a special preference. It's happened to me, where the task at hand needed a special preference and it was revisited an a number of occasions over a period of days or weeks. Being unable to save that preference would annoy me at the least and impact my efficiency at the worst.
So consider if you really want them to never have access and if you do, develop a methodology to allow them to make their own preferences and if they prove useful for other tasks, become part of the standard.
There is a copy preference tool that would allow you to merge users custom preferences from other XIN files back into the "master" XIN file.
The simple solution is a workflow where by default, they get the master XIN read only. Then, if they need to create and save their own custom preference, they save the master to a standard location - preferably on the server where you can get to it for merging if and when that is necessary. When they don't need the custom preference, they continue to use the standard. And periodically, they share with everyone their custom preference and how it was needed and used and then, if it really is something others could use, you merge it into the master and they can delete their custom XIN, until they need to make another custom preference.