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

[B Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

I was going to say... it sounds like a perfect time for the OP to create
his/her first web application vs trying to make green screen do something
it was never meant to.  :)

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On Sat, Mar 2, 2019 at 6:37 PM midrange <franz9000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have provided a similar solution from green screen, not tried wild cards
> specifically, but found
> That the most stable way to do this was  to call a browser :
> http://your local file structure/file name
> browsers understand directory structure
> browsers can open (pdf, tif, etc ) - in our case it was .tif
> of course a web server under qhttpsvr needs to run and be configured to
> allow those directories.
> But it has run for years flawlessly.
> To get around the long url and the limits in the command we did create a
> symlnk.
> Its been a while... if any of the above makes no sense I can try to dig up
> the code.
> I didn't come up with this on my own - some article pointed me there.
> Jim Franz
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of
> Gad Miron
> Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2019 8:19 AM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Getting to network placed documents from green-screen apps
>
> 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
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