When projects relate to each other in Flash Builder, things get messy with paths. Sooner or later you end up with an absolute path in your build configuration, and that means your colleague won’t be able to build on checking out. Relative build paths would be nice, but in the meantime I found a fix that alleviates the pain: Linked Resources. The name doesn’t say much, but what it comes down to is this:
You define a path as a constant, and use it everywhere in your build paths. That way, when your colleague checks out the various projects, the only place that needs to be changed is that constant. To define such a constant, go to Flash Builder Preferences -> General -> Workspace -> Linked Resources. Add a constant, say WORKSPACE_ROOT = /Users/admin/Documents/workspace/, then use it in your project properties. For example to get a project to publish at /Users/admin/Documents/workspace/common, instead of putting that path in Flex Build Path -> Output Folder, you can put ${WORKSPACE_ROOT}/common. In this way, when you set up a workspace, you don’t have to dig through project preferences, but just need to set the Linked Resource.
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