Re: Locking 'Templates'

[Peter Gold <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Have you considered creating a customized menu set that includes/excludes the 
menu commands (and also their keystrokes)  you want users to have access to?

Check out Help > Online Manuals > Customizing FrameMaker Products. Look for the
contents topic "Menu and command configuration files"

You can create a .bat file (in Windows), a unix script, or an AppleScript, that
can substitute any menu configuration file for the default one, then start
FrameMaker, so that when you start up FrameMaker by launching one of these 
script techniques, the user gets the restricted abilities that you want. If
varying the menu choices is not an issue, you can just substitute the restricted
menu file for the standard one and users just launch FM the "usual" way.

Regards,

Peter Gold
HighSoft, Inc.

Steve Schwedland wrote:

> I set up an InstallShield installer to change all of the files needed for a
> toolbar enhancement.  What the installer actually did was save a backup of
> the original files and then overwrite them.  You could do the same thing here.
>
> Steve
>
> At 01:44 PM 9/8/99 -0400, Lester C. Smalley wrote:
> >Michael, Alexia, Karen, and all -
> >
> >| Is there any way to lock up tag definitions or a least make
> >| it difficult to do so? If the authors would at least have do
> >| some extra button pushing to override agreed upon definitions
> >| they would be reminded to check with the group before doing
> >| so.
> >
> >The answer is a qualified yes:
> >
> >You will need to modify the FrameMaker installation, but it is entirely
> >possible _without_ needing a custom program or FDK plug-ins to alter
> >the user interface so that authors' do not have either the menu entries
> >or the keyboard short-cuts enabled to access:
> >
> >  - the paragraph designer
> >  - the character designer
> >  - the table designer
> >  - edit shortcuts
> >
> >effectively making them able to apply whatever formats exist in the
> >template, but not make _any_ changes to those, which is the equivalent
> >to being able to lock the definitions.
> >
> >This will require changing several files (exactly which ones depends on
> >the platform you are using), and has to be replicated on each different
> >system that has Frame installed for which you wish to prevent creating
> >or modifying formats. (I expect that you would want to have at least
> >one 'master' system that can make appropriate changes to the templates
> >after a decision to do so is reached.)
> >
> >Also, if FM is upgraded or reinstalled, the custom changes will need to
> >be redone.


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