Hi Mark, re: > Thank you! No worries. The entire exercise boiled down to creating a missing link; pretty easy really :-) re: > The main goal of what we are trying to do with the > ADDE/mcidas setup on this server is to make data available to the IDV in > our classrooms. Yup, I understand that. re: > This is probably an IDV support questions but I was > wondering if there was some documentation on configuring the IDV to grab > data from our local server by default. The way that the IDV works is that it keeps the last ADDE server visited for things like imagery, etc. as the "default" for the next invocation, whether it be in that session or the next. So, as the user selects the omega.lsc.vsc.edu server for ADDE-served datasets, that person's IDV instance will use omega as the default the next time. I think, however, that you are asking how to set the default server for all ADDE-delivered datasets out-of-the-box; true? I will ask Yuan how to do this when he gets back from lunch... ** Some time later ** I talked to Yuan, and he tells me that the way to set your ADDE server as the default one to use is to create an XML file that defines the list of ADDE servers to present in the interface and put omega at the top of the list and then turn that XML file into a plugin. Don Murray told me something about this a long time ago (although he was advising me on how to set defaults for things like image loads). I just dug through my old emails and found the procedure to define the list of ADDE servers to show in the interface, and set their list order: - exit any running IDV session(s) - create the file addeservers.xml in the user's ~/.unidata/idv/DefaultIdv directory I have included an example file that you can use as a template - start a new IDV session The ADDE server that is pre-selected as the default one to use is either the last one that a user selected previously _if_ the IDV had been run before and an ADDE server selected for a type of data (e.g., Dashboard -> Data Chooser -> Sat & Radar -> Images), or the first one in the list of servers included in addeservers.xml if this is the first time an ADDE server has been selected run. The catch is that the ~/.unidata/... directory tree will not exist unless the IDV has been previously run, so it will have to have been run once before you can setup the default list of servers. Please let me know if this makes sense/helps. Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: JCY-277961 Department: Support McIDAS Priority: Normal Status: Closed
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