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FlexSim and Sharepoint?

carsten_seehafer — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 09:41:11 GMT

[ FlexSim 19.0.0 ]

Moin (a greeting from the northern part of Germany),

In our company we will drop classic network drives and switch to Sharepoint. Because of that all files will be stored in Sharepoint (The path is something like https://mycompany.sharepoint.com/:w:/r/sites/Project/Shared%20Documents/myFolder/myModel.fsm?d=wcdf62c14&csf=1&f=XtHT). Is it possible to open/save files in Sharepoint with FlexSim? And is it also possible to import/export Excel-files between Sharepoint and FlexSim?

Re: FlexSim and Sharepoint?

tanner_p — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 23:36:48 GMT

I haven't used Sharepoint myself, but I can imagine that it could work as long as there's a clear path for FlexSim to access the files.

In the case of Excel, you can try accessing the file using the Excel Interface that's built-in to FlexSim. Let us know if it works. I'm not sure about accessing .fsm files, however.

Re: FlexSim and Sharepoint?

carsten_seehafer — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 07:52:22 GMT

The standard file open dialog (e.g. for fsm or xlsx) can't open files from https (or I missed something 😉 ). I hoped for a hidden feature in FlexSim that is capable to open/save via https

Re: FlexSim and Sharepoint?

joerg_vogel_HsH — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:41:14 GMT

Hello Carsten, I am not an expert on SharePoint nor on File load in FlexSim. I was just looking for the phrase ‘ “file://“ on https’. There was a suggestion to create local file path to link to an Internet address for another program than FlexSim: “jamf”. For another phrase I found the URI file scheme “file:///“, too.

I am not sure, if these are possible answers. Jörg

Re: FlexSim and Sharepoint?

carsten_seehafer — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 12:42:25 GMT

Thanks Jörg,
the solution on jamf looks interesting but as far as I know sharepoint is hosted on servers from Microsoft (Sharepoint belongs to Office 365). So I'm not sure if our IT can realize this solution?!

Re: FlexSim and Sharepoint?

joshua_s — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 22:10:42 GMT

FlexSim doesn't have direct support for SharePoint/cloud based servers, but if you do manage a way to do what you are mentioning above, please post a solution for other users that might come across this issue.

Re: FlexSim and Sharepoint?

joerg_vogel_HsH — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 09:20:48 GMT

I haven’t a SharePoint Server. At the work we use a different product. I can add a desktop shortcut icon pointing to a server directory. If I want to open a file, I choose in the file open window the shortcut icon to open the network path and then the file. This link to a Microsoft support article describes the restrictions, preparation and involved browser versions to move and copy files with the file explorer in Windows.

Re: FlexSim and Sharepoint?

joerg_vogel_HsH — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 09:26:00 GMT

Another very old approach I have seen for a PLM database. A batch file copies the needed files to a local directory on FlexSim start and on close back to the database.