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Nick27
Inspiring
January 5, 2010
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Can you publish AIR apps to network location

  • January 5, 2010
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Wondering if it works?

I had everything setup (so I thought) before I left for Xmas. and now I've come back to find that publishing the AIR app to a server location doesnt work.....I have to manually do it. Is that right, because I remember it prompting me to update a new version of my existing install, and the udpate file is on the server.

But when I publish now, there is no new update.xml file, the .air file is old, and the only things that update are the browserbased file, which if I select to not be generated, then I'm not able to publish the AIR file.

Is there a reason RH has been made like this?? seems very odd.

Thanks.

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Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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January 5, 2010

AIR help as an application gets distributed to end users for installation on their PCs. You can then place updated .AIR files together with the XML file on a server. The locally installed help then checks that server folder. There is no publishing involved there.The field Output Location would normally be the within the SSL folder and you would  copy the AIR file and the XML to the server location. At least that is the way I have interpretted it on the basis that all outputs get generated locally and only publishing goes to a server. I suppose you could try specifying the Output Location as the server and I will try that next time I am in the office. However, if your are having problems and are specifying the server, it would be worth changing that.

Web based AIR help gets published and that works OK for me.

I am not clear from you post what the problem is. If the above does not help, please clarify.

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Nick27Author
Inspiring
January 6, 2010

For some reason I thought AIR files would be published to a set location like everything else, rather than having to be manually moved. I think previously my 'generating' folder was set as the network location, but I changed it to a local folder, not realising that the publishing step was only working for the browserbased stuff. seems a bit strange though that you can do it for the air file though.

nevermind, thanks

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