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    • April 4, 2014 at 12:52 pm #67883
      caddingt
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      This is not, strictly speaking, an InDesign question, but I’ve scoured the web and can’t find an answer anywhere.

      We use server sharepoints to store our InDesign files and pdfs. I want to be able to capture a pdf’s location on the server and email it as a link to my colleages that, when clicked, takes them directly to the file.

      Possible? I’ve used Macs since they were invented but it seems to me that I’ve heard about PC users being able to do this. We are a 100% Mac team with some members working remotely.

    • April 4, 2014 at 2:00 pm #67888
      Dwayne Harris
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      To be honest–I’ve never heard of such a thing. If it’s possible, that is way over my head.

      Are these physical servers or cloud servers (i.e., things like DropBox) or other file-sharing services? If the latter, once you upload the file, it should give you the URL for it.

      I apologize but I don’t know what you mean by server sharepoints.

      At my company we have remote users, but they have the IP address and password and connect directly to the server to get any files they need.

    • April 4, 2014 at 2:15 pm #67889
      caddingt
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      These are physical servers. Sharepoints are different segments of the server — one for accounts, one for images, one for working files, etc. Your permissions to various sharepoints vary according to your job function.

    • April 4, 2014 at 2:24 pm #67890
      Dwayne Harris
      Member

      Thanks for explaining. Personally, I have no idea of how to give them URLs/links. And I’ve been on a Mac since the 80s.

      Our server is set up the same way (i.e., accounts, marketing, job server, fonts, software, etc.).

      I have access to all remotely.

      But somehow they have it set up so one can access all of them when with the user name and password (I am authorized due to my job functions and trust), but others can only get to the job server as a guest and thus only acccess to the job server.

      I’ll check with my boss on how it’s done, and maybe he will remember. But I’m pretty sure it was about each sharepoint and the permissions applied (i.e., read only, read/write, etc.).

      Dwayne

    • April 4, 2014 at 4:15 pm #67892
      Dwayne Harris
      Member

      update: We have the Mac OS server software that allows one to designate that kind of stuff, and we have it set up that way.

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