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Exchanging Workspaces
Portability
An Orbit GIS Workspace is built to be exchangeable. All references to file resources are stored with a relative path indication. References to server resources are stored with server references.
Creating a portable workspace
Locate the resources in a single directory or a set of subfolders. It doesn't matter if these folders are on your local drive or on a network driver. Be sure all extra files are located there too, such as the legend file, a resource descriptor or joined external tables.
Create the workspace and save it in that directory, or in the folder above. Be sure you create a set of files that are located together. Avoid resources that are located on a different drive or harddisc.
Porting a workspace
Locate the workspace file and the resources used by the workspace. Copy all these files, in exactly the same directory structure, on any other workstation, a portable computer or on a CD. This way, the workspace references will continue to work.
Install Orbit GIS or Orbit Explorer on your new hardware and open the workspace.
Corporate efficiency
In an enterprise, you may store resources on a shared network drive. By placing the workspace next to your resources, you make them exchangeable among you and your colleges, even if they don't use the same drive-letters for the network drives. Referring to resources on other drives can be done by adding the manually to the resource, using the UNC notation (\\servername\shared_directory).
Using Server Resources
If your workspace refers to resources located on a server (EOS), opening the workspace will popup the EOS server login window if you haven't logged in yet. If you reuse the workspace on a device that hasn't access to the EOS server, this will obviously fail.