gough
regarding the library aspect of this, i would suggest that satellite libraries (cache libraries) desperately need to work 'offline' without (as you say) jumping through hoops like a circus seal.
currently, with cache libraries enabled, archiCAD has the library manager check for the libraries at every sign-in, send and receive, draft open, etc, etc and on a draft open
it has you verify that it's found the right libraries for validation before it 'synchronises' them
.
what needs to happen is for the library manager to look for the libraries, but if it can't find them just go ahead and load the cache anyway. i don't mind if it
tells
me that i'm working from the cache and that it couldn't 'validate' the correct libraries, (much in the same way that it already does with the teamwork draft file itself if you are working offline or away from the network server which holds the PLP file), just so long as i don't have to keep defining different paths every time i switch locations.
hope that made sense guys. i felt a wee bit of a rant coming on there.
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