Switching the default site without opening Actinic?

[jxm28788]

Is it possible to change the 'selected' site without actually opening actinic? I've looked at the command line options but there doesn't seem to be anything to do this.

What I want to do is run a utility (mole end Mash in this case) on each of my sites from a CMD file. As Mash works on whatever site is currently selected I'd need to be able to basically change site, run mash, change site, run mash and so on.

(I'm aware there is a way of using 1stop automation and mash together to get this type of result, however I think I see a problem with the way that would work so I'm just wondering if there's a way to do it my way before I have to spend time fixing this potential problem...)

[jxm28788]

yes, I'm aware of that switch - but that actually opens actinic. I want something that changes the site without opening actinic.

[Duncan Rounding]

I think it's stored in this reg key:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Actinic\Catalog7]
"Site"="Site1"

[jxm28788]

thanks, I'll experiment with that tonight.

[Jan]

You have to open Actinic to change the site, the program checks the registry setting when it opens and then changes the ODBC connection and other settings when it opens.

The product mash program uses the Actinic ODBC connection to access the database so the way to get that to use different sites would be to recreate the ODBC setting before running the program.

I'll look at creating a multi-site version of product mash this year sometime, or at least a way of passing a site name into the program when run in batch mode.

[jxm28788]

doh. is there a way to tell it to open (with /s) and then to close down again? Or a way to force it to close (cleanly) once open? from a cmd file?

[jxm28788]

thanks, I'll give a go tonight

[jxm28788]

ok, that didn't work...

if you have a .cmd file like this:

catalog /s site1
catalog /q

then once it's launched actinic (the 1st line) the script just hangs... until you close actinic manually then it moves on to the 2nd line.

So that's not much use.

Anyone from actinic care to jump in here with any suggestions?

I need a way to change the selected site without actually opening actinic, or a way of opening it, switching sites, then closing it again automatically...

[Jan]

I'm half from Actinic, will I do ;-)

You need catalog /s site1 /q I think.

Regards,

[jxm28788]

it's a crazy plan but it might just work!

[jxm28788]

yup, it worked... thanks.

[Duncan Rounding]

I'm half from Actinic, will I do ;-)...

Everyone's now wondering which half Jan

[jxm28788]

Everyone's now wondering which half Jan

and is the other half Mole?

[Duncan Rounding]

Half Mole......trapped in a woman's body!!

[Jan]

lol .. love that Duncan.

.. I do like think that I am mole through and through mind you :-)