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ESL User Manual
5.3 Detecting New/changed ESL image and Configuration Files
After the server application has detected a new product data file from the back office, it will call
the middleware applications to parse the incoming CSV file into a combined database file and
generate the required configuration and image files that are used to update the ESLs.
Both the configuration and image files will be placed into the configurable
Output
folder. The
files will be placed in the sub-folder:
Images
. (Once processed the images and XML-files will
be moved to the subdirectory:
Images/Completed
).
The server application will automatically process the BMP- and XML-files that have been
placed in the
Images in
folder. Once it has successfully processed a file, by sending the image
to an ESL, it moves the files to the sub-directory
/Completed
of the
Images in
folder.
The middleware application will only generate new configuration and images files for products
that are not found in the
Completed
subfolder or have been changed.
The ESL server application processes any changed files and checks the images folder for
unprocessed files:
•
On startup
•
After receiving a new link-database from the terminal
•
After a rename event of:
o
Any new product CSV file in the
Input folder
o
The ESL-product link file (
linked.csv
) in the
Output folder
o
The Image layout file (default:
image.xml
)
o
The XML-template file (default:
info.xml
)
If any manual changes to the image folder have been made (like deleting image files from the
Completed
folder), these changes aren
ʼ
t automatically detected. To force an update, select the
Data
tab in the server application and press the
F5
key.
