| Well, since you can do a CAB CREATE and point the filename field at any
file, this is possible to do. However the drawer philosophy is based on
files being in the .DOCn directories of the particular drawer, and
cross-drawer cross-filing is not allowed by the file cabinet functions.
If you did force a cross-drawer cross-file by playing with the filename
field then you would have problems with attempts to simultaneously edit
etc.
Why do you need to do it?
Perhaps CDA live links would help you?
Dick
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| Hi,
Yes you can do this. The CABINET CREATE function has a filename
parameter so you can create a second reference to the same file in
another drawer. BUT here's a few catches:
1. If you deleted the document from one drawer the underlying file
would be deleted. The second reference would still remain pointing
to a non-existent file, until either the user or the FCVR cleared it
out. You could overcome this by having the second entry with the
DELETE flag set to "N".
2. You have to watch the case where the document is being edited. The
reservation mechanism would be fooled since if the first was being
edited, the second wouldn't know. If this is a possibility you
might need to have a special FORMAT entry for these documents, where
an edit causes a script to run to check that the other reference is
not being edited, and possibly for the READ & PRINT actions as well.
When you think about it for READ only access, this is exactly how shared
mail messages are stored!
Cheers
Stuart
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