Reply To: Best Practices for InDesign Version control when using InCopy for writers?

I know this is an extremely late reply but hopefully someone sees this. We finally started production using InDesign, InCopy, and in5 (the plugin that helps export better html5 from InDesign) and we ran into a few issues involving the remote workflow but my question now pertains to packaging. What is the proper workflow with InDesign and InCopy when it comes to packaging a file after making content edits, specifically media and assignments?

You had mentioned previously that the point was to avoid all versioning and duplicates, but if media is changed at some point in the editting process my instinct is to repackage my files to make sure all the content stays together. In the case of the layout workflow would you ever package your file? If so do you continue to use the original indd file or use the new indd file within the package folder? As far as i can tell packaging also moves all the assignment files to the packages links folder and the original indd file now has a bunch of broken links, so this doesn’t seem like the correct move.

After an error during a compressed timeline where an indesign file associated with an incopy icap/idap disappeared and prevented us from incoporating the updated idap from the writer, the writing team abandoned InCopy for the rest of the project out of concern, so now i need to figure out how to assuage their fears and get back into using InCopy for the next pass, but ill be looking into using our OneDrive for the server/layout based workflow.