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Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Jun 3, 2009 at 04:55 PM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Well, yes and no; the problem with the PIM approach is that if the root path
>changes (for example the drive is assigned another letter) the links are lost. In
>one’s own PC it should be possible to re-assign the drive letter, but not so in
>enterprise or nomadic environments.
FYI, InfoQube provides a few mechanisms to help resolve file links:
1- Users can enter relative paths. Resolution will use that and the current path to find the file
2- If an absolute path to a file cannot be resolved, IQ will try a drive substitution (USB drive letters change often)
3- Users can create dynamic links. In a dynamic link, the link path is stored in fields with file name and path in separate fields to ease bulk link updates
4- Many hyperlinks can be embedded in a single item. The same with the HTML pane of course.
Yet to be implemented are 2 more link helpers:
1- Using Windows shortcuts. These don’t work very well between 2 PCs but allow excellent tracking of file moves on the same PC.
2- Folder/sub-folder monitoring. IQ will monitor a list of folders and create/delete items to reflect the folder content
Details here: http://www.sqlnotes.net/drupal5/index.php?q=node/116