Re: Getting to network placed documents from green-screen apps

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Gad,

You say that you are constructing a path for all documents for a 
customer such as \Customers\Cst0000001.  What are you doing with this 
path?  Just running STRPCCMD so that it opens Windows Explorer?  That 
wouldn't actually view the PDFs directly, and it would allow the user to 
navigate elsewhere, etc.

Or are you doing something else, like opening each file in that 
directory with a PDF viewer?  Can you explain how this works?

I assume you're wanting to do the same thing with 'just invoices' in 
your example.  If you're using Windows Explorer, you can't do that that 
I'm aware of.  If you can determine how to do it in Windows itself, you 
might be able to devise a way to make STRPCCMD initiate it..  but I 
don't think there's a way to do it in Windows to begin with.

If you write your own dialog to display the files, then you can do 
whatever you wish, of course.

If you're using a different tool, it's going to depend on the 
capabilities of the tool you're invoking.  That's the key thing to 
understand, this isn't really about STRPCCMD or the calling program... 
it's about the tool you're invoking and how it accepts input.  Once 
you've figured that part out, the STRPCCMD part is easy.

-SK


On 3/2/19 7:19 AM, Gad Miron wrote:
> Hello sages
>
> I could use a helping hand with this:
>
> For some time now we store customer PDF documents on a network share
> directories,
> tree arranged by customer No. this way:
> Customers (Directory of all customers)
>    Cst0000001   (sub directory of Customer No 1)
>       Ord00001.pdf (order No 1)
>       Ord00044.pdf
>       Inv00007.pdf (Invoice No 7)
>       Inv00023.pdf
>       .
>       .
>    Cst0000002 (sub directory of Customer No 2)
>       Ord000020.pdf
>       Ord00005.pdf
>       Inv00002.pdf
>       Inv000055.pdf
>
> Cst0000003 (sub directory of Customer No 3)
>
> etc..
>
> When a (green screen) user wants to display a certain PDF doc (say order no
> 44)
> We construct an appropriate path like \Customers\Cst0000001\Ord00044.pdf
> and call STRPCCMD to open it on his/her PC.
> We also let users see all documents in a customer directory by constructing
> a suitable path  (like \Customers\Cst0000001\ ).
>
> Now,
> Users are asking to display customer's invoices only (or orders only or any
> other sub set).
> but using wild-cards with STRPCCMD like in   \Customers\Cst0000001\Inv*.pdf
> does not produce anything (it hangs).
>
> Does anyone here know how it can be done?
>
> TIA
> Gad