Help! Troi File Plugin, using it cross-platform

[Hellgie]

Hi,

I am a new filemaker user and just learning the ropes. I have made an image database for the school that I work at. Everything is working great assuming I stay all Mac or all PC. However we use both here at the school. So here is the issue:

In this Photo database we are going to have at least 5,000 high res photos. This means that we are going to need to store the photos as references. This works fine whether I am on all mac or all pc, by just mounting the image server. But due to the fact that this solution needs to be cross platform, I need it to work on both. So I thought that I would give the troi plugin a try. For the life of me I can not figure out how to resolve the references to the images to work on both the mac and the PC. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Fitch]

Use a calc something like:

If (Abs (Status (CurrentPlatform)) = 1,

Substitute (Substitute (thePath, "g:", "ServerName:"), "", ":"),

Substitute (Substitute (thePath, "ServerName:", "g:"), ":", "") )

[Hellgie]

I have used that method for importing the photos, so that I can import from both platforms. However it still means that you would have to "reimport" the path every time you open up a record on either a Mac or a PC. Not sure if there is any way to help this or not.

I suppose I could have two different containers, one fot the mac and the other for the PC and when I import the photo assign the respective path to each container. i will try that out.

Thanks for the help.