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    Rene Lloyd
    Offline Rene Lloyd over 8 years ago

    I have run into an odd thing with the destination folder in Composition Server, in trying to send the rendition to a subfolder of the source folder.

     If the PDF subfolder exists, this works ok, but if I check the “Create folder if it does not exist” option, PW doesn’t create the folder in the right place – it creates the whole tree using descriptions as names (!)

    For example, if my file is in the path

    by name

    pw:\\PWSRV.ad.m.dk:Metro\Documents\L3DT\TMP - L3\COMP - Composition Server\IN -- no environment\

    by description

    pw:\\PWSRV.ad.m.dk:Metro\Documents\L3 -- Ring 3 Light-Rail - Design and Tender\TMP - L3 Testarea - Open for experiments\COMP - Composition Server\IN -- no environment\

     and I want it to appear in the subfolder ..\ IN -- no environment\PDF

    so I have Place rendition in the relative folder from source file set to PDF

    if I create the folder myself, ICS places the PDF file in the folder, as expected.

    But if the folder does not exist, it creates the folder and all the folders above it using the descriptions as names, creating a completely different tree

    pw:\\PWSRV.ad.m.dk:Metro\Documents\L3 -- Ring 3 Light-Rail - Design and Tender\TMP - L3 Testarea - Open for experiments\COMP - Composition Server\IN -- no environment\PDF

    rather than
    pw:\\PWSRV.ad.m.dk:Metro\Documents\L3DT\TMP - L3\COMP - Composition Server\IN -- no environment\PDF

    It seems the logic to create folders is using Descriptions, while the logic to place the file uses Names.

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    • Dan Williams
      0 Offline Dan Williams Wed, Oct 21 2015 11:54 AM
      I'll leave your Composition Server questions to someone else, but if you are seeing folder descriptions "as names", check your user settings and see if you have the user setting "Display descriptions" under "User Interface" enabled. If you do, try disabling it and see if that "fixes" the problem of your folders having their names created with descriptions.
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    • Dan Williams
      0 Offline Dan Williams Wed, Oct 21 2015 11:54 AM
      I'll leave your Composition Server questions to someone else, but if you are seeing folder descriptions "as names", check your user settings and see if you have the user setting "Display descriptions" under "User Interface" enabled. If you do, try disabling it and see if that "fixes" the problem of your folders having their names created with descriptions.
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      0 Offline Rene Lloyd Thu, Oct 22 2015 2:43 AM in reply to Dan Williams
      hi Dan,
      This is not about a difference in *displaying* names vs. descriptions. It is about Composition Server creating folders and using descriptions instead of names, to create a completely new folder tree. It doesn't make any difference whether Display descriptions is on or off.
      regards
      René
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      0 Offline Rene Lloyd Thu, Oct 22 2015 2:52 AM in reply to Rene Lloyd

      It looks like this - I want the destination to be where the PDF -- PDF folder is, but ICS creates the tree at the bottom instead.

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