File System Notation

Situate Federates many kinds of data sources into a "file system"-like structures, allowing any task to read and write files to entities like file systems on assets, ftp endpoints, websites, source code control mechanisms. Each file or directory in a Situate File System can be identified by a string that is much like a URL. Each string starts with a data source type followed by a ":". The colon is then followed by a path. The format of the path is source-type depdendent.

Local File System

When using the Situate Viewer™, the local file system data source allows files to be read from and stored to the file system on which the Situate Viewer™ is running.

Asset File System

Files can also be read from and stored to any file system running the Situate agent. This done by setting the data source to "asset". After "asset:", Situate expects two "/" characters followed by the name of the particular asset as defined in the object browser.

Windows

On windows, the following format is used...

asset://<asset-name>/<drive>/path-to-file-or-directory

where is a drive letter.

Unix

On Unix, the following format is used...

asset://<asset-name>/path-to-file-or-directory