RE: Link to VSS in deliverable

["Franz-Josef Knelangen \(AKG\)" <fjk -at- akgsoftware -dot- de>]

John:

# Hi, guys...has anyone ever successfuly placed a link from their
# document to a file in Visual Source Safe that they were able to
# retain through document, PDf, and online?

Since the files aren't stored as "documents" in the VSS database you'd have
to write a script to

- set the working folder
- get or check-out the files
- and so on

and then call the script from your document.

I wouldn't do that. If I had to provide my users with the most recent
version of the linked files I'd set up - as VSS administrator - an "overview
folder" (don't know the English term for "Überblicksordner") for the appr.
VSS project. VSS will write a copy of each project file in this "overview
folder" every time this file changed (= was checked in).

Using this kind of setup you could simply link to the file copies in the
"overview folder" w/o the need to give readers access to the VSS database.

Cheers,

Franz-Josef


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