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With FDS the .flexProperties contain the serverRoot and the .actionScriptProperties -services and outputFolderLocation which are absolute paths.
This does not allow a team to share this files in a version control system.

Eclipse has a feature called Linked Resources (see screenshot) where a user can define variables for e.g. the path to Tomcat and to a root directory which contains all Flex project directories (I use Modules and multiple Flex projects for one project).
This variables should also be used within the property files which would allow to use only relative paths.

For the Flex Compiler the Additional compiler arguments then should not be
-services "D:\tools\apache-tomcat-5.5.20\webapps\myprojectWEB-INF\flex\services-config.xml" -locale en_US
but
-services "${CATALINA_HOME}\webapps\myprojectWEB-INF\flex\services-config.xml" -locale en_US

Same for Project Properties->Flex Server->Root folder

Steps to reproduce:
1. Create an FDS project
2. Try to share code via version control system
 
 Actual Results:
 Not possible due to absolute path
 
 Expected Results:
Should work with relative paths and Linked Resources
 
 
 Workaround (if any):
 -
 
 Flex Builder already uses Linked resources for Project Properties->Flex Build Path->Output folder.
I could browse the directory and it was replaced with ${CATALINA_HOME}\webapps\myproject\flex
So I consider it a bug that Linked Resources are not used for all kind of path definitions.

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With FDS the .flexProperties contain the serverRoot and the .actionScriptProperties -services and outputFolderLocation which are absolute paths. This does not allow a team to share this files in a version control system. Eclipse has a feature called Linked Resources (see screenshot) where a user can define variables for e.g. the path to Tomcat and to a root directory which contains all Flex project directories (I use Modules and multiple Flex projects for one project). This variables should also be used within the property files which would allow to use only relative paths. For the Flex Compiler the Additional compiler arguments then should not be -services "D:\tools\apache-tomcat-5.5.20\webapps\myprojectWEB-INF\flex\services-config.xml" -locale en_US but -services "${CATALINA_HOME}\webapps\myprojectWEB-INF\flex\services-config.xml" -locale en_US Same for Project Properties->Flex Server->Root folder Steps to reproduce: 1. Create an FDS project 2. Try to share code via version control system    Actual Results:  Not possible due to absolute path    Expected Results: Should work with relative paths and Linked Resources      Workaround (if any):  -    Flex Builder already uses Linked resources for Project Properties->Flex Build Path->Output folder. I could browse the directory and it was replaced with ${CATALINA_HOME}\webapps\myproject\flex So I consider it a bug that Linked Resources are not used for all kind of path definitions.