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    Cant change the default Path in operations

    Why can't you change or select the path to the data when creating an append or posting operation? I have an application that I've built in a directory C:\Inventory. The operations look to that path for the data. If my end user installes the app in a differn't directory other than C:\Inventory the operation won't work because it still lookes for the original directory. This was not a problem in A4. This makes building applications very difficult if you can not creat operations with just the data files and access that data no mater what directory it is in.
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    RE: Cant change the default Path in operations

    i don't see why you say you can't change the path.

    you certainly can. i would like to see your app to see why you think that you can't.

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      RE: Cant change the default Path in operations

      When you create a new operation, in my caes the app is in the directory C:\Inventory, the default path on the "Master table side is c:\Inventory. I can change the transaction path to the name of a table on the transaction side to any directory on the computers system on my development machine.
      Lets say in this case it's currently C:\Inventory on my machineor maby c:\data. What happens when you install the app on a customers computer on the H: drive in the directory H:\Inventory2. If I've built the application around the path C:\Inventory and the app is installed on another machine on a totaly different drive and directory name does the operation look for the default path C:\Inventory for the table for it's data or will it simply look for the table name specified in the operation in what ever directory it is installed in? My app is installed on many differnt machines in many different directories.
      This is where I'm having trouble understanding the path statement.

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        RE: Cant change the default Path in operations

        I guess what I realy need is to know that when I create an operation such as Post or Append that it will use the table name that I give it reguardless of what Directory it is installed in.

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          RE: Cant change the default Path in operations

          Fred,

          Have you considered placing the path and source table name in a variable, and then passing the variable to the operation instead of hard coding a particular path into the operation ? Your script could build the string in the variable using information from each machine that it may be installed on.

          -- tom

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            RE: Cant change the default Path in operations

            Fred,

            Alpha has no way to intuit where your user may have stored the source files for your operations. It can check the default directory, the directory you specify in the operation itself, or the directory you pass by reference using a variable. Does this make sense?

            -- tom

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              RE: Cant change the default Path in operations

              Fred,

              This is where the use of the 'Aliases' under View, Settings.., Aliases comes into play.

              On your system, you would create an Alias called
              [data] with the path of c:\Inventory\ .
              On the Customer system, you create the same alias, but give the actual path as h:\Inventory\ .

              Then when you create the operation, Replace c:\Inventory\MASTER.DBF with [data]MASTER.DBF . Bingo, the path is now resolved on oth yours and the customer. You might also want to make an alias for the transaction table path.

              regards,
              Melvin Davidson

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                RE: Cant change the default Path in operations

                That is exactly what we do in our Social Services Application. I define the network path, drive letter, local path, and numerous other variables the n put them into the addin_variable space so that they can be used everywhere. This has saved us an incredible amount of grief. See my article in this months newsletter.

                Tom

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                  What I've learned about Path

                  Thanks for all who have replied to this question. I've learned thru experimenting that the path that you see in the operations tab when setting up a post or append are there to show you where current files are located on your system. This does not hard code the path for the C:\ path into your application. I installed the application on another computer in a new directory and it worked great. I send a file out to my clients each month with new data to be both appended (Unique) and posted. the app looks for the table name in the current directory where the app. is installed and not at the path on the original development computer. Many of my clients install the app in a variety of locations and paths on thier machines, hence, my concern.

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