Use global addresses to file data

You can set up global addresses to file data so that all View nodes share a common network-based set of files. This provides single-source maintenance of the files, but it is less fault-tolerant than local copies.

In the following figure, two View nodes are each running a copy of the same application, but reference the same recipe file. Because each application uses a drive letter mapped to a fully-qualified network path for the file, all references point to the same file.

Set up a shared file

1. Map a network drive to the shared path containing the referenced files. For example, G:\Directory\Recipe.csv, where "G:\" is the mapped drive letter that refers to \\Moo\Share. You must map this same drive on every View node.

2. In scripts, reference the shared path. For example:

   RecipeSelectRecipe("G:\Directory\Recipe.csv", "review", "RecipeName");