ICMA fle doesn´t reflect changes in InDesign

[Matthias36745320yczy]

Hi,

i´m curently working at a very small company and try to implement an Indesign-InCopy workflow.

So far it works fine but changes i make to an Indesign Document are not reflected in the InCopy file.

Example: After the intial creation of the icma file i add a couple of textframes to an allready existing task in InCopy.

Indesign asks if i want to export the new settings, i want.

Opening Incop the newly added textframes are not available to the editor.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[BobLevine · Accepted solution]

ICMA adds an unnecessary level of complexity. Stop using them.

Instead export the InCopy content and then open the INDD file in InCopy.

[Matthias36745320yczy]

Thank you, what a fast reply!

Just in case it´s important i´d like to add, that the files are in the dropbox.

Regarding your suggestion. The Editor is working with a PC, i initially tried to open the InDesign File on his computer but it wouldn´t work. I´ll try again but could it be the case, that it´s not possible to open an InDesign file with InCopy on a PC?

Thanks!

[BobLevine]

This workflow is fully cross-platform. All users must be on the same version of InDesign/InCopy.

If you're using a shared Dropbox folder make sure all participants have cloud only turned OFF! All files must be fully synced to all users harddrives. 

[Matthias36745320yczy]

Thank you Bob, great help. I´ll try to open the .indd file again on the next occasion.

[Matthias36745320yczy]

Thanks, works exactly as you described it!

[geshons]

So  the new only workflow is to give the InDesign-file to the editor? So the editor is able to open the InDesign-file in InDesign and can now design and make changes in the layout on it's own … We'd like to avoid this. How is it possible to avoid giving the original InDesign-file to the editor (my client)?

[BobLevine]

No! The editor can open the INDD file directly in InCopy. Since this has been asked and answered I am going to lock this discussion. If you're having issues understanding this please start a new discussion with full details.