7 replies to this topic

[Richard Bassett]

V6 allegedly includes a 'FOLDER' file type to let you look through the files in a directory via a ProIV function.
I can't find this documented (although proiv.com servers seem to be toast right now so can't say for sure).
Is anyone using this and knows how it is supposed to work or can point me at where it's documented?

T.I.A.

[mikelandl]

V6 allegedly includes a 'FOLDER' file type to let you look through the files in a directory via a ProIV function.
I can't find this documented (although proiv.com servers seem to be toast right now so can't say for sure).
Is anyone using this and knows how it is supposed to work or can point me at where it's documented?

T.I.A.

Wasn't able to find any documentation either but I created a sample "folder" file (called FOLDERFILE) and a simple update where I aliased FOLDERFILE to a directory on our server (i.e. /usr/bin). Added a manytime update cycle which reads FOLDERFILE and was able to return the filename of all files in the directory. Looks like each record represents a file, which makes sense. Not sure if this is the correct way to work with it but it seems to have worked. When you create a new folder file type, ProIV automatically creates the key and fields (i.e. filename, size, owner, etc). Pretty cool. May have to look into this more and start using it.

[Richard Bassett]

Thanks Mike! Much appreciated.

[Wim Soutendijk]

Hi,
if you look at the demo functions, you can see the complete file definition of the folder type.
The only problem I found with them is that on a windows server, the creation time doesn't work if you are not on the standard GMT time zone.

regards,

wim

[Richard Bassett]

Thanks Wim. I actually don't have a V6 to play with right now which is why I was hunting for docs

[Wim Soutendijk]

I have a document for you with documentation of the file definition, but for some reason I can't upload it to the side.

I will mail it to you directly

Wim

[DeclanLyne]

The attached document is taken from the V6 training course and has an example.

Regards
Declan

Attached Files

•  V6_Training___Folder_file_type.doc   1.34MB   41 downloads

[Michael Pistrang]

Is anyone using this and knows how it is supposed to work or can point me at where it's documented?

T.I.A.

We currently use this file type to check if a file exists in a specified directory. I was also able to create a little recursive global update which searches a folder and all sub-folders within the defined folder for a specific file name, returning the path of the first file that matches.