Good afternoon.
So, regarding remote user, no access to shared storage. This is similar to what we discussed earlier.
You send a person a set of media, be it a drive or some other way. They copy it to some directory structure on a local hard drive or their own shared storage. They open up the team project and everything is offline. The reason for this is because when they initially open up the team project, what they know about the media from the machines prespective is your version of "Hey the media is right here..." Your remote user will need to tell it "It may not be where everyone else knows it is but, take a look over in this area and see if you can find it."
So, we handle this by allowing the user to creating new media mappings.
From the in office perspective your media management might look something like this...
When the out of office user has their drive connected and opens up a team project for the first time, they might see something like this.
What the offline user needs to do is tell the machine where this media is located. They can do this by using the new media mapping option. If they open up the media management dialog, they can see where the machine thinks the media is located by looking at the meida item details or the offline media mappings. With this information, the user has enough information about the media so that they make the determination of where the media really is for them.
For this example, if the inhouse user sent a drive to out of office user, team projects thinks that the media path starts at the root .\TJ\ but, for the out of office user, it actually starts at e:\NathanMedia\TJ. So if the out of office user selected the TJ filder in offline media, clicks new media mapping and finds that directory on his local system, it will point all the media to the new location and you will end up with something like this.
So, this is kind of important....
You might think to yourself "Hey this is a lot like link media / offline media" workflows. It kind of is but, there is some important things about link media which can do some harm. Link Media/Make offline make changes to team projects media refernces which are global changes. If your offline user uses the link media option and shares their changes, it would tell every other user that is part of the team project that the media is located on his hard drive. This is bad because everyone else that is working on this team project would show offline media. The difference when using the media management dialog, with the exception of sharing media mappings and coping items to shared storage, everything is a change to the local machine and has no effect on other users, media-wise.
Hope this helps.
-Nathan Boerman
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