I am exploring the implication of Dynamo in an office environment, rather than Dynamo as Tool of the PropellerHeads. Seems to me that one thing that would be desirable is a shared, vetted, read only library of nodes, packages and graphs. Most users would never need more than this, as they are "users of tools", not "makers of tools". Basically it's what most of us do now with family libraries. A small subset of the office makes or modifies families, most people focus just on using those families.
Anyway, I have this working for nodes and packages. But, despite the fact that I have Dynamo configured to store backups in userAppData (according to the settings file at least), when I open any graph I get a backup folder created in the same folder as the graph. If the graphs folder is read only, Dynamo barfs and won't open the graph at all.
So, I guess first question is, is opening a graph the way those "users of tools" will work? Or am I missing something and there is a way to "run" a graph without opening it first? Or, open a graph read only/not for editing?
And second question, has anyone actually started using Dynamo as a general use production tool? Or is it still the purview of a small set of visual programming power users, and the general staff doesn't actually use it?
Gordon
Anyway, I have this working for nodes and packages. But, despite the fact that I have Dynamo configured to store backups in userAppData (according to the settings file at least), when I open any graph I get a backup folder created in the same folder as the graph. If the graphs folder is read only, Dynamo barfs and won't open the graph at all.
So, I guess first question is, is opening a graph the way those "users of tools" will work? Or am I missing something and there is a way to "run" a graph without opening it first? Or, open a graph read only/not for editing?
And second question, has anyone actually started using Dynamo as a general use production tool? Or is it still the purview of a small set of visual programming power users, and the general staff doesn't actually use it?
Gordon
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