Datasource Outside of Release Directory

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karltinsly
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Datasource Outside of Release Directory

Post by karltinsly » Tue Jul 23, 2019 2:02 pm

Hello, I developed my Ranorex solution on my local machine. The datasource is in a folder on my local drive at c:\ranorex\data. After I've built my release (including the runtime), I copied the release directory to another machine and put the datasource in c:\ranorex\data on that machine. I would expect that the when running the solution (the .exe in the release directory), it would use the datasource I put in that local c: drive, but instead the test fails and says it can't find the datasource. Am I missing something?

karltinsly
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Re: Datasource Outside of Release Directory

Post by karltinsly » Tue Jul 23, 2019 4:42 pm

I resolved this issue by copying the datasource to the release directory, and providing the user with a shortcut to it in the c:\ranorex\data folder.

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Re: Datasource Outside of Release Directory

Post by odklizec » Mon Aug 05, 2019 11:00 am

Hi,

You should either use "Copy file to project" option (see User Guide chapter about managing data sources), eventually, you can add external files to project via steps described here:
https://www.ranorex.com/forum/add-file- ... tml#p52728
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