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Originally Posted by Tanjamuse
Can I have more than one CALM library?
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@Tanjamuse:
Yes and No. Depends on the definition of "more than one", which really boils down to a timing issue.
Yes: You can create CALM Target Library #1 for up to 50 different Source Libraries, consolidate it, and then create CALM Target Library #2 with a different path, with up to 50 Source Libraries, and then consolidate it. You can quick-switch between #1 and #2. And so forth and so on.
No: You can have only one (1) CALM Target Library at a time that you are
actively Generating and Consolidating.
Warning: if you use the Library Tools for the identical Source Library in both CALM #1 and CALM #2, you may shoot yourself in the foot. Don't do that. The Library Tools functionality keeps track of what it has done, but only for its own CALM Target Library.
I recommend having only a single "active" CALM Target Library. Since it holds up to 50 Source Libraries, that should not be a limitation.
In other words, you can have a lot of old "read-only" CALM Target Libraries, but only one (1) in which you are actively changing the data. Just use those old "read-only" CALM Target Libraries for research and review, but don't run the CALM Plugin while in them as that would only be to make changes via Metadata Tools and Library Tools.
By the way, you do not have to actually consolidate all of the Source Libraries at one time. Just because you Generated them, and hence made them available for Consolidation, does not mean that you have to consolidate them. You cannot consolidate a Source Library that was not Generated, but nothing makes you consolidate everything that was already Generated.
Finally, remember that
all CALM Target Libraries are temporary, transient and highly disposable. Just Refresh and start over. Easy come, easy go.
DaltonST