Sonny Software

I am working on a project in collaboration with an assistant who is not on the same LAN. We collaborate by email, telephone, and intranet. We have a server-based Subversion. (I'm a software pro, but she is a humanities person, so I can't impose anything too geeky on her).

Suggestions for how to have us share a Bookends database, with both of us making changes? Is the bookends file format anything that could be easily turned into text, so that Subversion would be able to identify changes?

Use Subversion, and require each person do a checkout/checkin before making changes?

Thanks,

Cheryl

You can't turn the database into text.

The best solution may be low-tech: at the end of each day (or week, or whenever) export any references that have been added (you can insert the entry date into the reference with a menu option or automatically when importing) and then exchanging the files for import. Alternatively, since Bookends adds new references to the end of the database, you can select a range, from x until the end of the database.

You can use Remove Duplicates every week or so to wring any dups that might arise out of the database.

Jon
Sonny Software