Project management mode and Dropbox

[NewLeafHomeDesig]

Hi!

My company has been using Dropbox to share Chief files between team members working from different locations. This has worked well as long as we make sure Dropbox has synched before we start working on a file someone else recently updated. We just updated to X17 and are interested in using the Project Management mode. Since this doesn't store files using the regular browser, we don't seem to be accessing the same Managed Store with the most recent files including someone else's work.

 

What is the best way to share files between team members? Do we need to stop using the project management mode and go back to traditional file management with Dropbox?

[Renerabbitt]

12 hours ago, NewLeafHomeDesig said:

What is the best way to share files between team members? Do we need to stop using the project management mode and go back to traditional file management with Dropbox?

Delete your project in project management


It will prompt you if you want to 

then export to Dropbox
I suggest the naming convention
260213-DRVA-Briowning-RR
where 
260213 is Feb 13 2026
DRVA is Design Review A
Browning is the job name
RR is the initials of the technician who's version of the file this was

is yymmdd-design version-job name-technicians initials

If you don't delete the project upon export, that person will essentially have a presumably outdated copy of the project in their project management and also backups will take longer

 

[NewLeafHomeDesig]

Thanks! So it sounds like the project management feature really only works well for situations where only one person works on a project start to finish. Is that correct?

[Renerabbitt]

3 minutes ago, NewLeafHomeDesig said:

Thanks! So it sounds like the project management feature really only works well for situations where only one person works on a project start to finish. Is that correct?

no, my entire business is working with other designers and drafters, the above instructions is exactly how I share files back and forth with them