Change Drive Location

Hello all,

I have been asked to add the contents of a CD to a network location.
When installed on a PC, the installation software asks for the letter
of the local CD drive; this works without flaw. The CD basically
contains an HTML index page and a folder of PDF's. The index page uses
a javascript to call the basic location of the PDF folder. My question
is: how can I modify the following javascript to find a network
location instead of a local drive letter?
I've tried a few unsuccessful approaches using my very limited
knowledge of javascript. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Paul.

var DRIVE="E";

function GoPDF(PATH){
LETT=DRIVE.substr(0,1);
location="file://" + LETT + ":/PDF/" + PATH;

}

 

On Feb 6, 10:44 am, pmind <> wrote:
> [H]ow can I modify the following javascript to find a network
> location instead of a local drive letter?

> var DRIVE="E";
>
> function GoPDF(PATH){
>     LETT=DRIVE.substr(0,1);
>     location="file://" + LETT + ":/PDF/" + PATH;
> }

Try generating

file://///networkShareName/path/to/your.pdf

And yes, that's five forward slashes near the beginning. Don't
ask!

-- Scott

 

On Feb 6, 4:33 pm, Scott Sauyet <> wrote:
> On Feb 6, 10:44 am, pmind <> wrote:
>
> > [H]ow can I modify the following javascript to find a network
> > location instead of a local drive letter?
> > var DRIVE="E";
>
> > function GoPDF(PATH){
> >     LETT=DRIVE.substr(0,1);
> >     location="file://" + LETT + ":/PDF/" + PATH;
> > }
>
> Try generating
>
>     file://///networkShareName/path/to/your.pdf
>
> And yes, that's five forward slashes near the beginning.  Don't
> ask!  
>
>   -- Scott

Thanks Scott, I got it now. I just removed the variable and simplified
the code, like so:

function GoPDF(PATH) {
location= "file://" + "networkShareName/path/to/your/pdf" + "/
PDF/" + PATH;

}

Thanks again!

 

pmind wrote:
> Scott Sauyet wrote:
>> pmind wrote:
>
>>> [H]ow can I modify the following javascript to find a network
>>> location instead of a local drive letter? [ ... ]
>
>> Try generating
>
>>     file://///networkShareName/path/to/your.pdf
>
>> And yes, that's five forward slashes near the beginning.  Don't
>> ask!  
>
> Thanks Scott, I got it now. I just removed the variable and simplified
> the code, like so:
>
> function GoPDF(PATH) {
>      location= "file://" + "networkShareName/path/to/your/pdf" + "/
> PDF/" + PATH;
>   }

You might still want the five slashes in there. I think two will work
for IE and Chrome, but will fail for Firefox. (I can't remember about
Opera or Safari, and don't have them available at the moment.) Five
will work everywhere.

-- Scott