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wcl3y2
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6 years ago
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What do you use the global shared folder for?

Hello, We are relatively new and trying to figure out our approach for structuring project spaces and projects. One question that came up is what to do with the global shared folder. Is it genera...
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    jcampion
    6 years ago

    Hi Will,
    We don’t use the shared folder because anyone can modify anything in it. We have a separate project space called “common” with a subfolder called “runtime” and give everyone read/execute rights to that folder.
    It is easier to use the shared folder because you can select from it when using the dropdown, rather than specifying “…/…/common/runtime/GetInvoices” by hand. FYI - there’s currently a bug if you have your user setting to “new form” when using a pipeline execute snap to reference a pipeline in another project where it won’t display the path. If you change your user preferences to shut that off, the path will appear.

    Shared folders are good for snaplexes. I wouldn’t put pipelines in there if you have novice users because anybody can make changes to any pipeline, and the pipeline will be permanently updated for everyone.

    I wish they would allow a read-only access to shared folders.
    Hope this helps!

    • Judy
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jcampion
New Contributor III
6 years ago

Hi Will,
We don’t use the shared folder because anyone can modify anything in it. We have a separate project space called “common” with a subfolder called “runtime” and give everyone read/execute rights to that folder.
It is easier to use the shared folder because you can select from it when using the dropdown, rather than specifying “…/…/common/runtime/GetInvoices” by hand. FYI - there’s currently a bug if you have your user setting to “new form” when using a pipeline execute snap to reference a pipeline in another project where it won’t display the path. If you change your user preferences to shut that off, the path will appear.

Shared folders are good for snaplexes. I wouldn’t put pipelines in there if you have novice users because anybody can make changes to any pipeline, and the pipeline will be permanently updated for everyone.

I wish they would allow a read-only access to shared folders.
Hope this helps!

  • Judy
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    wcl3y2
    New Contributor III
    6 years ago

    This is very helpful. Thank you for the insight!