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Locomotive Databank

Description

The idea behind the LocoDB is to be able to access all locomotives on all computers with access to the same NAS/Cloud storage.
Even with an offline Rocview it will be able to access the locomotives and check their properties.


Structure

The LocoDB path points to a directory which can be read and write by all users running Rocrail.
Every loco has its own directory named by its ID. Blanks are replaced with underscores; Blanks in IDs are discouraged and not supported.

Example

This is an example of a LocoDB on a NAS:

Tree

LocoDB
├── BR01097
│   ├── BR01097.png
│   ├── BR01097.xml
│   └── DB01.png
├── BR120119-3
│   ├── BR120119-3.xml
│   └── m33535.png
.
.
.
├── RoT-1
│   ├── rot1.png
│   └── RoT-1.xml
└── V1002215
    ├── DB100.png
    ├── m3072.png
    └── V1002215.xml


Rocview

Setup Path



Select

Select a directory to open just one locomotive.

All

Open all locomotives in the LocoDB.


Rocrail

Setup Path



Plan properties

The "Workspace" and "Scale name" is used as selection in the LocoDB in case of automatically loading.


Locomotive

For selecting a locomotive from the LocoDB the "Workspace" and/or "Scale" field should contain a value.


Export

With the "Locomotive database" option the export of the selected locomotives will be in the LocoDB.
The export will overwrite existing files.


Automatic loading

Locomotives will be automatically loaded from the LocoDB if following is all true:

  1. No local locomotives are defined.
  2. The Locomotives database path exists and is accessible.
  3. The Plan properties contains a selection by Workspace and/or Scale-Name.
  4. Locomotives in the LocoDB matches the Plan properties criterium.
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