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Configuration: Storage loading


The concept of a storage in AVIX refers to a unit that can be opened for different purposes. For instance, a storage may be opened by the AVIX desktop application, in a window of its own. The same storage may also be viewed in the Shopfloor viewer web application. 

YourAn AVIX serverstorage willmay needbe restarting,served ifto youconnected makeAVIX applications in any changesof the following two forms :

  • Database storage. Once the AVIX Server is configured for DB repositories, it may serve database storages to connected AVIX applications. 
  • File storage: the AVIX Server also supports serving file storages to connected AVIX applications. This is sometimes referred to as server-managed files. 

load_storages.xml configuration files.

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The file "load_storage.xml"load_storages.xml controls which storages that are loaded by the server during start up. By default, the AVIX server will pick up the storage information from an XML file called "load_storage.xml", residing in the root directory of the AVIX server. 

In a clean server installation, no such file exists unless the file has manually been created and placed in the designated location. During the first start up, the file will be created by AVIX, with the purpose to allow workspaces to be added from the settings page in the web application and to publish an AVIX-file from the AVIX client to the server.

There is an example file entitled "load_storage.xml.example" that can be used as a baseline to create a load_storage.xml to fit your purpose:

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The example file, showcasing four types of configurations to load storages with somewhat different purposes.

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<load_storage_config>
(A)	<load_storage workspace="live" storage="db:http://127.0.0.1:45500/AVIX/live_data"/>
(B)	<load_storage workspace="workspace1" storage="Z:\Transfer\AVIX-file\After market.avx5"/>
(C)	<load_storages workspacePrefix="ws1_" storageDirectory="Z:\Transfer\AVIX-file" uploadtarget="false"/>
(D)	<load_storages workspacePrefix="ws2_" storageDirectory="${se.solme.avix.shopfloorviewer:filestorage.upload.folder}" uploadtarget="true"/>
</load_storage_config>

A. Loads a storage from the database which gets the ID live. 

B. Loads a storage which gets the ID workspace1 created from the AVX file After market.avx5.

C. Loads several storages, which gets the ID ws1_+AVIX file name, one from each AVIX file in location Z:\Transfer\AVIX-file. upload target=false configures that it is not possible to upload additional storages neither from the user interface in the web client nor from the AVIX client. Upload target=true enables uploading to the location Z:\Transfer\AVIX-file

D. The default configuration that is automatically written to the load_storage.xml if no file has been manually created. It allows uploading from the web client as well as from the AVIX client.     

Changes to the load_storage.xml only has effect when the server is restarted.


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