Supplementary media on the Vitalware server

The supplementary media for a Multimedia record is stored in a directory called supplementary under the directory in which the master image is stored on the Vitalware server. The location of the master image is determined by the ServerMediaPath Registry entry (or in the absence of this entry, the ServerPath Registry entry entry). The Registry entry contains a list of paths to consult when locating multimedia on the Vitalware server. The first path in the Registry entry is used to store new multimedia, while all paths are searched to locate multimedia.

There is a special case in which an exec entry may be used to interface between Vitalware and a third party imaging system (see Integrating 3rd party imaging systems for more details). In order to support supplementary media while still maintaining the same interface to third party systems, the filepath supplied to the get, save, ping and remove calls may now include the supplementary directory. For example, the file path passed to the ping call for a supplementary image called Image.jpg for the Multimedia record with IRN 4254 would be:

4/254/supplementary/Image.jpg

The list call should now return not only all media in the folder passed to it, but all media in the supplementary directory. For example, the call list 4/254 may result in the following response being returned:

Status: success

4/254/master.jpg

4/254/master.thumbnail.jpg

4/254/master.300x300.jpg

4/254/supplementary/video.avi

4/254/supplementary/image.tif\