using process to generate text file

[steve]

Looks like a problem with the file being processed - mismatched tags, probably. I should really trap the error.

Steve

[GTB]

do you think it would help if i used the "T" files Steve ?

geoff

[steve]

do you think it would help if i used the "T" files Steve ?

Probably

Which files were you using then? I'd assumed the one causing the problem was one you had created yourself, with a typo in it.

Steve

[GTB]

was using the produced "htm" files

maybe it would have worked if i hadn't ticked the process box ?

geoff

[steve]

was using the produced "htm" files

maybe it would have worked if i hadn't ticked the process box ?

geoff

Yes - and actually that's probably the best way to do it if you are using the standard files, because it will have just processed them anyway. Unless you've specified 'realtime', which I think you had, in which case the processed files will be slightly out of date. It depends on the timings that you've set.

Steve

[GTB]

so are you saying to use the htm files
untick the process box
tick realtime box ? Steve

geoff

[GTB]

yes - well that seems to work

geoff

[steve]

If you untick 'process', and specify the processed files rather than the 'T' files, then yes, that will work. But be aware that if you also tick 'realtime' then the file you will be copying will have been processed at the last 'standard' (non realtime) interval, so may be slightly out of date. In other words, there's no point in ticking 'realtime' in those circumstances as you won't get faster updates than if you hadn't ticked it.

Hope that's clear. Maybe I should do a flow chart of what Cumulus does, web wise.

Steve

[GTB]

so am i better going back to the "T" files ?

geoff

[steve]

If you're using realtime update, yes.

Steve

[GTB]

and i have done

gone back to using the "T" files with realtime update that is

geoff

[w5afw]

Steve -- the new build with the no ftp option is working great as a means to process and generate local text files. There are actually two files produced for each line -- one labled "tmp" and the other "txt". No problem - I suppose the tmp file is just an artifact of the process.

[steve]

Yes, the processing has to go somewhere, so the 'tmp' files are created. It's easier for me to do it this way, with the way the code was structured, rather than process the file straight into the destination file.

Steve

[w5afw]

I suppose there could be a method to delete and replace the temp file if someone were absolutely obsessed by it. Or it could be processed in a tmp directory/folder....

[GTB]

Steve

just noticed - when using the "T" files and processing - that the image files are not being updated in the images folder ?

geoff