Is this possible?

[Steverino]

I'm having some issues with writing a relative path for a hosted, remote file...that should connect to a local file.

It seems that a remote file can refer to a local file if the full path is specified, but I've been stymied in all of my attempts to specify a relative path.

You would think that simply specifying "file:Desktop/test.fp7" might work, but it doesn't, at least not on a Mac (and neither does "filemac:Desktop/test.fp7").

Anybody with some bright ideas? Since this needs to be specified in External Data Sources, I can't script variables into the path.

Edited January 3, 2009 by Guest

[bcooney]

When I add a local file as an External Data Source on my Mac, I get file:../../Desktop/Filename.fp7.

Bummer you can't use variables, even global ones.