Paths to bitmaps...

Hi all

We have a number of reports that output photos on them (TP Logs, Core Photo logs etc) Related to my previous post, gINT seems to store the paths to the bitmaps in the format "F:\Geotechnical\g254\photos\tpphotos\tp1spoil.jpg" with F:\ being a share on our server. This works fine for anyone actually in the office, but it really sucks for anyone working from home / site. They will be in on our server via a VPN. The drive letter assigned to the network share will not be F:\ as it is a permenantly assigned drive letter so their VPN just grabs  a.n.other drive letter.

They can still hook up the photos OK but when someone in the office opens the project file to output the logs, the path to the photos is still the VPN path ie "H:\Geotechnical\g254\photos\tpphotos\tp1spoil.jpg" and therefore no photos print, and they all have to be reassigned in the office, which takes hours... see last post. Could the path not be recorded by gINT (or have the option to be) as "\\qserver\shared\Geotechnical\g254\photos\tpphotos\tp1spoil.jpg" as this would work from within the offive and via VPN?

Miles

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  • Hello Miles,

    Are you asking if gINT can change a path from H:\Geotechnical\g254\... to \\qserver\shared\Geotechnical\g254\...?  If so, the answer is no.  gINT has no 'awareness' of your network mapping.  

    The user can enter \\qserver\shared\Geotechnical\g254\... and it will work fine.



  • Miles, there is a really simple way to do what Kathleen describes for your photo file (bitmap file) fields:

    ...change a path from H:\Geotechnical\g254\... to \\qserver\shared\Geotechnical\g254\...?... The user can enter \\qserver\shared\Geotechnical\g254\... and it will work fine.

    The gINT Edit menu Replace command will not work inside gINT because the data is stored as a bitmap path-and-file name rather than as text. So the solution is to use the export/import capabilities of gINT with the Replace command in Excel, where the data is just handled as text:

    • First, export (or copy-and-paste) the contents of the photo file field to Excel.
    • Next, use Search and Replace to swap the local-drive path to the network-drive path:
    • Search for: H:\Geotechnical
    • Replace with: \\qserver\shared\Geotechnical
    • Finally, import the contents of the edited cells back into the photo file field.

    You will need to use an overwrite choice other than Never (the default) so that the edited data will replace the local drive path data.

     



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  • Miles, there is a really simple way to do what Kathleen describes for your photo file (bitmap file) fields:

    ...change a path from H:\Geotechnical\g254\... to \\qserver\shared\Geotechnical\g254\...?... The user can enter \\qserver\shared\Geotechnical\g254\... and it will work fine.

    The gINT Edit menu Replace command will not work inside gINT because the data is stored as a bitmap path-and-file name rather than as text. So the solution is to use the export/import capabilities of gINT with the Replace command in Excel, where the data is just handled as text:

    • First, export (or copy-and-paste) the contents of the photo file field to Excel.
    • Next, use Search and Replace to swap the local-drive path to the network-drive path:
    • Search for: H:\Geotechnical
    • Replace with: \\qserver\shared\Geotechnical
    • Finally, import the contents of the edited cells back into the photo file field.

    You will need to use an overwrite choice other than Never (the default) so that the edited data will replace the local drive path data.

     



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