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    aex files over network

    I have an app with several aex files in the addins directory. I cannot figure out how to get network optimization to include these files to the workstations. Can this be done other than to manually copy them to each workstation?
    Thanks
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    Originally posted by Mark Williams
    I have an app with several aex files in the addins directory. I cannot figure out how to get network optimization to include these files to the workstations. Can this be done other than to manually copy them to each workstation?
    Thanks
    The network optimization dialog contains a checkbox ("Copy additional files when creating shadow database") and button to "Specify additional files". Is this not working?
    There can be only one.

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      #3
      Originally posted by Stan Mathews
      The network optimization dialog contains a checkbox ("Copy additional files when creating shadow database") and button to "Specify additional files". Is this not working?
      It gives an error that it can't copy files unless they are in the data directory.

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        Sounds like a permission setting in windows..... or availability to the directory where the aex files are located.
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          I don't believe there is any way to copy the aex files from the addins_installed folder of the server to the addins_installed folder of the workstation. After all, how do you know for sure where the addins_installed folder will be on the 'other' location? How does the workstation know for sure where the folder would be on the server - or if it even exists - and how can a routine on the server guarantee where it will be on the workstation?

          I think the best answer in this case is to put the .aex file in the data folder and use the Load_Library() command to load it. This way you can have the network optimize routine include it as an additional file.

          Disclaimer: I have experienced some problems in the past with getting some of the functions in a library that was loaded with this method to work in the autoexec script. Unfortunately, I don't recall the details - it may even have been the OnInit of the run-on-load form rather than the autoexec. I also haven't tried it in v7 so it may be fixed now.

          Note: You can't even "roll your own" copy routine to copy it from the data folder on the server to the addins_installed folder on the workstation because that would happen after A5 was loaded on the workstation and the libraries in the addins_installed are loaded before A5 finishes loading.
          Last edited by CALocklin; 01-16-2006, 11:02 AM.

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