posted 02 July 2001 04:32 PM               

• Is this a purely internal computer network or is there outside access to it as well? (That determines the level of security you need.)
  
• What type of operating system are you using on the servers and the workstations? (Some are better than others in security.)
  
• Is your master list a web page, a Word document, or an Acrobat PDF file? (It makes a difference how you do it.)
  

I use a web page as the master list and link to all documents. The documents are PDF files in a read-only folder on a server. (Only the document coordinator - me - has full access.) Users log on to the network at their computers, which gives them access to the folder. I have not had any problems with using a web page.

I have had problems using hyperlinks between documents if I created the link in Word or Acrobat. However, the problems have been to do with the way the link is named and handled rather than the access security. I have stopped embedding links for now. I plan to go through documents to add links later, once the rate of continual improvement of the system slows down ...

posted 02 July 2001 05:14 PM               

Try posting a question at the following forum:

www.tek-tips.com

posted 03 July 2001 08:16 AM               

I did what you suggested. My "handle" is tenergy, as there is another energy out there. Who'd a thought? Thanks for the tip.
Connecticut is beautiful right now.

energy

Graeme, e-mail on it's way to you with the particulars of your inquiries. Thanks for the assistance.

[This message has been edited by energy (edited 03 July 2001).]

posted 03 July 2001 11:18 AM               

Using Microsoft Visio at the minute for all my flowcharts, and as people have said before, using a flowchart for the basis of my ISO 9000:2000 manual and then hyperlinking down through the layers. I am the only one in the company with this software so pasting it into word documents so that everyone can access read only documents. Only thing is the hyperlinks don't transfer and having trouble hyperlinking the sections I want in word

posted 03 July 2001 11:10 PM              

(this is Trakman at home)

Don't put hyperlinks in the Visio object, put them at the top or bottom of the page, in word.
The trick with the Visio stuff is to make it about 3/4 the size of the page that you work on in Visio. This way you can copy and paste into word without having annoying anchor & re-size problems.

For read only documents you need to protect them. Don't protect them using the "Read only" feature in word, select "tools --> Protect Document --> Forms" this will prevent people from modifying them off-line. The "read only" feature can be easily bypassed - re-open the document and delete the password!.
Purely as a logistical suggestion, keep hyperlinking out of general P&P's. This will save you serious re-work if they get moved, or re-titled, or whatever.
Have a HTML page with all links on it to all documents (or sub-pages)this works well as your efforts to make the system work flawlessly focuses on a few pages, not the entire system.

An on-line system is well worth the learning curve.

Trakman.