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Hey all,

forum is a great resource and i have two new issues.

1.I followed the instructions on the Xpression U tut for datalinq. However, when I go to add the datalinq server in the manager, hit add and localhost and port is 8888 and hit ok, the server doesnt connect. I was able to get up to that point in the video but im stuck now. I am running 5.7 Build 3064. I would like to get this to work as i have a entire football team to set this up for and manually entering stats would kill me. Im connected to a excel source that successfully connected in the previous steps.

2. If there are images in the excel will it carry over to the datalinq (if i can get it to work?) or do I need to upload all the images into materials? If so, is there a way to batch upload?

Thanks!

Photos are of my problem

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I would check that windows firewall is disabled and not blocking the ports.

If the excel sheet contains file paths to the images, you can datalinq those to quads in your scene.
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Also, if you want to batch create a bunch of materials from images; just drag/drop them images from Windows Explorer into the material manager and it will create materials for them all (note this may not work if running under windows 10, as windows 10 prevents a lot of drag/drop features from working).
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Dangit. Sounds like my boss needs to hook us up with an upgrade then
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