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URLs, File Paths and Directory Structures

URLs, File Paths and Directory Structures

This page explains how the URLs, file paths and directory structures work in Evolve.

Evolve Site URLs

There are three different URLs you can use to access Evolve, depending on how your deployment is configured.

Accessing the main Evolve IIS Site

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The main Evolve IIS Site is only accessible if you use Evolve Dynamic Sites. If you use only Evolve Static, then this site is still created, but does not display anything.

When you install Evolve and Configure the Server, it creates a top-level Evolve IIS Site.

The Site is used to provide the Evolve login dialog, as well as to show the page displaying the list of Model Sites that are available.

The site can be accessed using the following URL:

http://<server-name>/<evolve-IIS-site-name>/

where <server-name> is the name of your web server machine, and <evolve-IIS-site-name> is the name you specified in the Server Configuration application.

Depending on which authentication method your Evolve server is configured to use, when you access the Evolve IIS Site you log on and are then shown a list of all the Dynamic Model Sites you have access to. You can click any of the Model Site links to visit that Site.

Accessing a Dynamic Site

Dynamic Sites are published at the following URL:

http://<server-name>/<evolve-IIS-site-name>/sites/<site-url-name>/

Accessing a Static Site

Static Sites are published at the following URL:

http://<server-name>/<evolve-IIS-site-name>/statics/<site-url-name>/

File paths and directory structures

This section explains the folder structure used by Evolve on the web server machine. The names used are the default names for a typical configuration.

The Evolve files are typically found at C:\Casewise\Evolve

Within this directory, the following directories exist:

Folder

Description

Data

 

This folder contains all the necessary site-specific files created when you publish a Site.

Includes the following sub directories:

Common

The Common folder contains all resources that are shared across all Dynamic Sites in Evolve, such as translated text and Site logos.

Logos for Model Sites listed on the top-level Evolve Site are also stored here.

Sites

The Sites folder contains a folder for each of the Dynamic Sites that are published.

Each of these directories is named according to the Site ID in the deployment settings for the Site, and contains the css, js, images and webdesigner sub directories.

Statics

The Statics folder contains a folder for each of the Static Sites that are published, which in turn contain all the published files and resources for the Site.

 

Site

Contains all the application files required for Evolve to run.

Also is the home of the custom folder used to store customizations such as js, css, themes and images.

Log files.

Content

This folder will only exist if you have had a previous version of Evolve on the machine.

Static

This folder will only exist if you have had a previous version of Evolve on the machine and had a Static Site published.

Accessing object pages directly by the URL

There are two ways to access content directly in Evolve using URLs.

The Standard URL

Using the 'Share' button:

Share

Will allow a user to share a page with another user. It is also possible to gain the same behaviour by copying the address bar URL from your browser and sharing this with other users. These URLs are model and site dependent. This means that they will only work for a given site, generated by a given model. This is because the identifier for the object is an ID that is local to the model. This is normal, and in almost all cases, is exactly what is required.

A sample of a Standard URL:

localhost/evolve/sites/voxdnoev/index.html#/cwtype=single&cwview=process&lang=en&cwid=1767

Where: cwid=1767 is the local ID for an object.

The UUID URL [Evolve 2016.1.1 and above]

A UUID based URL differs in the way that it identifies objects in Evolve. A UUID URL is still site dependent, in that the first part of the URL identifies the Evolve web site, however the latter part can be used with any site that supports the given object type, and has an object with the matching UUID. This means that objects which have been copied, or transfered by XML (or other means) from one model to another, will still be considered to be the same object.

A sample of a UUID URL:

localhost/evolve/sites/voxdnoev/index.html#/cwtype=single&cwview=process&lang=en&cwuuid= f0a9ed615e7b11e48273a08869a4da20

Where: f0a9ed615e7b11e48273a08869a4da20 is the UUID of the object.

How does this work?

When you access a URL using the cwuuid, Evolve will do a lookup in the model and redirect the page to the matching cwid.

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If both cwid and cwuuid are supplied in the URL, Evolve will ignore the cwuuid parameter.

 

Why might UUID based URLs be useful?

Take an example where you are running a master model in English, and take copies of this model to translate into French. You want to add the ability to reference the translated object from the English object. However, the IDs of the objects within the French model, may differ from those in the English model. It is therefore not possible to create a simple reference.

In this instance it is possible to use the UUID based URL. You can simply take the site portion of the French URL, and add the Object UUID from the English URL, and you have a new URL that can jump from French to English.

NB: To find the UUID of an object, either display this in your Evolve site design, or if you are developing a custom view, look to the JSON data structure that is returned by the Evolve server.

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