31.4 File name of an external saved page

After we now know how to access an Archivista database we would like to show an exemplary case of how to locate bitmap pages with an SQL query and a few commands in Perl.

sub GetDateiName {
    my $modus = shift;  # A or B copy
    my $akte = shift;   # document number
    my $seite = shift;  # page in question
    return $modus . FileName($akte,5,) . FileName($seite,2);
}

sub FileName {
  my $eingabe = shift;
  my $anzahl = shift;
  my ($res,$res1,$out);
  while ($eingabe != 0) {
    $res = $eingabe % 26;
    $res1 = $res + 65;
    $out = chr($res1).$out;
    $eingabe = $eingabe - $res;
    $eingabe = $eingabe / 26;
  }
  $out = "0" x ($anzahl - length($out)) . $out;
  return $out;
}

The code above shows how the file name is calculated from the document number and the page number in that document.

To calculate the complete path of a page we in addition need the type of the document and the folder where it lies. The type of the document is to be found in field 'ArchivArt': 0=BMP/ZIP,1=TIF,2=PNG and 3=JPG. The folder number is to be found in field 'Ordner.'

One other thing must be paid attention to: has a document been archived or not? The field 'Archiviert' in table 'Archive' tells us. If yes, the page will no longer be found in the input folder but it will reside in the output folder. The folder of a document that has not yet been archived can be located by the following procedure: a) it must be in the input directory b) its number is the result of taking the remainder of modulo 100 of a document number (e.g. the remainder of 1725 would be 25).

Two more examples:

Page in input folder: Document 1, page 1 with A copy and value '1' in field 'ArchivArt' you find in '..\input\in001\A0000B0B.TIF'.

Page in output folder: Document 2, page 3 with B copy and format 'JPEG' has already been archived and lies in folder '1' (field 'Ordner,' English: 'folder'). This page is to be found in '..\output\ARCH0001\B0000C0D.JPG'.

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