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Figure 2359: Specification of project directory and mapped drive
Specify the physical project directory for project samples and the mapped drive letter that should be used for it on the workstations. The specified project directory will also act as the default location for newly created projects.
The mapped drive can be the same as for the cadett ELSA main directory, but it can also be different. To make things simpler and less exposed to errors and malfunctions, it is wise to limit oneself to one single mapped drive.
Placing the projects on another server than where cadett ELSA itself is installed is not a good idea. There are a number of severe disadvantages with such a solution. To be able to fully utilise all features and all power of cadett ELSA, it is therefore strongly recommended that the software and the project data are placed on the same server. Having the projects somewhere else will create lots of limitations, if it will work at all, which it probably will not.
What you should specify here is a physical directory in which your cadett ELSA projects will be located. This directory will be seen in a different way from the workstations perspective.
Example
Looking at it from the workstations, the project directory should be:
X:\PROJ.
X:\ on the workstations represents the directory
C:\CADETT
on the server.
This directory is shared and mapped as X: on the workstations.
The physical directory in which the project samples hence should be installed is
C:\CADETT\PROJ
The mapped drive letter for the workstations is
X:.
It is possible to make a free choice of the directory name for the cadett ELSA project samples (PROJ in the example above) with the following restrictions:
•The directory from the workstations’ point of view must be located in a root (for example X:).
•The directory name must follow the DOS83 convention, which means that it cannot contain more than 8 characters, no spaces must be used and it may only contain the characters A–Z, 0–9, _ and -.
Using PROJ as directory name is recommended.
Remark
The shared directory that represents the root in which the project directory for the cadett ELSA project samples are located – C:\CADETT in the example – does not need to have a name that follows the DOS83 convention. A name like “cadett ELSA” would work just fine too.
If the selected drive letter is not already mapped on the server in the same way as on the workstations, for example because you have selected a different drive letter than for the cadett ELSA main directory, the installation program will perform a so-called “substitute”. This means that the command SUBST is used to create a “virtual drive” connected to the directory shared with the workstations. This way, the project directory “looks the same” when viewed both from both the server and the workstations.
The next step in the installation process is described in the next topic, which is listed below.