Image Files - Dashboard/XPression

Automation & Control
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Hello,

I created a DashBoard that will pull in team logos based on the selected team using:

var league = params.getValueAsString(‘Select_HOME_League’, 0);

var team = params.getValueAsString(‘Select_HOME_Team’, 0);

var logopath = ‘bg-u:file:/D:/TEAM LOGOS/’+ league +‘/’+ team +‘/TEAM_LOGO_FULL.png’;

ogscript.setStyle(‘HOME_Logo’, logopath);

This was working great when the DashBoard, XPression and logo files all lived on the XPression computer. We’ve since moved the Dashboard to a separate computer (it’s connected and working correctly with XPression) but I can’t seem to figure out the new path. The ‘TEAM LOGOS’ folder is shared on the network and visible from the Dashboard computer. And I can open up the png files to view them. But the DashBoard won’t seem to load them. I assumed the new path would be some version of this:

‘bg-u:smb://169.254.109.199/TEAM LOGOS/’+ league +‘/’+ team +‘/TEAM_LOGO_FULL.png’

I’ve also tried using the computer name in place of the IP and used %20 in place of the spaces in the folders but haven’t had any luck.

Thanks

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Hi Robert.

DashBoard does not recognize the SMB URL scheme. It can do HTTP fetches or file system fetches. Your easiest workaround would be to map your Samba share as a “Network Drive” on your computer and then use the file:/ URL scheme to access your images.

Another option would be to run a small web server on your remove computer to serve-up the directory with team logos.

James

#DashBoard

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Update: SOLVED

Here is the new scripting:

var league = params.getValueAsString(‘Select_HOME_League’, 0);
var team = params.getValueAsString(‘Select_HOME_Team’, 0);
var xpath = params.getValueAsString(‘XPRESSION_PATH’, 0);
var logopath = ‘bg-u:file:/’ + xpath +‘/’+ league +‘/’+ team + ‘/TEAM_LOGO_FULL.png’;
ogscript.setStyle(‘HOME_Logo’, logopath);

I ended up creating ‘XPRESSION_PATH’ as a new parameter that is editable within the DashBoard. This allows me to easily map to the images on different setups once the network is mapped…

localhost - D:/TEAM LOGOS
Mac device - Volumes/TEAM LOGOS
PC device - Z:/ (the drive name I gave to the mapped “TEAM LOGOS” folder)

Thanks to James and Brandon for their help!

#DashBoard

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Hey Robert,

I’m really new to scripting so I’m slowly making my way through Dashboard and creating some things to help. If I have a logo in Dashboard that I want to change based on a value from a Datalinq source is that similar to your logo scripting here? Say my datalinq value is USA, can I then pull that into a script where it’ll load a png image from the E drive - say E:/flags/usa.png - basically replacing the USA tricode with whatever value is in the Datalinq cell I’m pointing to? Hope that makes sense and thanks for any help