drawing software cannot overwrite publisher links

[Stefan Roos]

Our workflow:
Several people draw plans in ArchiCAD and export them on the server, always in the same place using the automatic ArchiCAD Publisher. Someone creates the documentation in publisher with all the plans as PDF links that are constantly updated.
The problem:
As soon as a PDF is linked in publisher, ArchiCAD can no longer overwrite it (file cannot be calculated).
This was never a problem in InDesign and ArchiCAD showed the same message if the PDF was open or someone had selected the PDF in the Finder.
So it looks like the publisher is "selecting" all PDFs links all the time.
Is there a workaround for this (without embedding the PDF)?
Or can the software manage the links differently in the future?

Edited April 22, 2020 by Stefan Roos

[stokerg]

Hi Stefan Ross and Welcome to the Forums,

I ran this passed our QA team before replying just to see if this was expected behaviour and it isn't.  They also could not reproduce this when they tried.  Can you give me a bit more information about your server setup?  We should just be importing the PDF and then monitoring it for changes.

[Stefan Roos]

hi stokerg
thanks for your feedback.
Our workstations are connected to a NAS Synology via Wireless and/or Ethernet. Sometimes the connection is also made from outside via a VPN. Can I help you with further or more detailed information?

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