Prefs - Job Manager: Path Translation Rules

A path translation rule (PTR) specifies the path the → “Job Manager” application has to go to find a network drive with the project's files and folders. The drive with the project must be mounted on the simulation node computers.

Table

The table contains the PTR – you only have to fill in the columns you really need: if the network contains, for example, only Windows machines “Linux” and “Mac” remain empty.

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You can add as many PTRs as required. RealFlow will always try to find a matching rule from the existing PTRs and ignores invalid rules.

Example A

This is the configuration:

• The project is located on a Windows computer on the D drive

• The D drive's network name is “Data”

• The folder is “Projects/Dyverso Simulations”

Here are all possible PTRs for different operating systems – you only have to use the ones valid for your operating system:

Example B

When you want to access a project on a OS X computer then we recommend mounting the Mac volumes as network drives. In Windows you can assign a letter to a network drive and this makes PTRs really easy.

• The project is located on a OS X computer under “/Volumes/Data/Projects/Dyverso Simulations”

• On Windows, the “Data” drives network letter is X:/.

Here are all possible PTRs for different operating systems – you only have to use the ones valid for your operating system:

Example C

Finally, the Linux route:

• The project is located on a Linux computer under “/mnt/Data/Projects/Dyverso Simulations”

• On Windows, the “Data” drive is mounted as Y:/.

Here are all possible PTRs for different operating systems – you only have to use the ones valid for your operating system: