Adapt Authoring Tool or Adapt Framework?

We run the authoring tool on web servers for our development team (we also offer this as a service).

The performance will depend a lot on the type of content,  your workflow and the hardware that you throw at it.

If you work with a lot of video and preview often the load on the server will be greater than working in plain text and the occasional preview.

Ideally you want to have processes in place to make sure people are not trading on each others toes. Adapt doesn't work like google docs - you can see who else is editing. But if you have clear roles like assets vs prose and use systems such as a spread sheet or the built in colour labels you should be fine.

You should consider the security of the system if you are planning to host it on a public web server rather than as a single user on a local set up (it's important to be secure on a local box too but easier to restrict access than with a public server).

Hope this helps.

Paul

Thanks for the replies. The comparison with google docs is helpful.
So it seems theres no built in "you cant edit this as its open by x already." ?

I was wondering how teams also manage image/audio/video asset repositories across projects. Ideally a developer would like to only see images for the project being worked on. And within that project, organisation of large quantaties of assets by way of folders or similar.

Another question is that of archiving of projects. As a large team working on many projects, the ability to archive off a project (all source and runtime files), and be able to reupload the project to Adapt for updates months, or years, later.

Thanks again, for any advice.

We manage assets using tags, rather than folders. We have looked at restricting the view of assets to a specific project, but the work got a little bogged down with some internals of the tool.

For archiving: we support per project backups in our hosted system both manual and automated, this means projects can be removed from the dashboard.

It is also possible to export and import a project if you feel you need to fully take it off of the server. Neither of these would remove related assets from the library, but export import will bring assets into a system if they are not present.

Paul