Swatch Library Name Limit

Items in the swatch libraries are allowed to have names up to 31 characters long. We need longer names up to 50 characters long.

Hi,
According to your post, my understanding is that you want to set a calculated column to get the current Document Library name with this formula:="Project name, "&TEXT(Created,"dddd, dd-mmm-yyyy, hh:mm").
Per my knowledge, there is no out of the box way to accomplish it, as the calculated column do calculations based on other columns.
I recommend that you can create a workflow to set a Single line of text column to get the current Document Library name, then create the calculated column based on this text column with this
formula: =[Library Name]&", "&TEXT(Created,"dddd, dd-mmm-yyyy, hh:mm").
The workflow is shown as below:
The result is shown as below:
Best Regards,
Linda Li
TechNet Community Support

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Hi OuraySportswear,
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Sanjay.

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In the meanwhile I had a few crashes, re-installed FCPX, muddled around a bit. It seems to be working now. Could have had something to do with FCPX 10.1.1 working with an earlier project done in FXPX 10.0 ... and when I opened FCPX (I think I opened it to set up another project) there was no automatic request to update the original project. Maybe something weird happened there and caused some kind of corruption. But in the end I did get the original project updated ... and am now learning how to organize in this little beastie.
I did learn something interesting about relinking media though. You can't JUST relink clips to their original media files in FCPX 10.1 ... because when you go to locate your original movie ... it's imbedded in the Library (all those hidden folders), and there is no way to access the library that way. Someone over at Creative Cow created a workaround, quite brilliant I think. It works anyhow. In the Finder Window you 'open package contents', work your way to the folder that contains the unlinked media files, then drag that folder to the margin on the left of Finder Window (where you can drag folders you work on regularly). THEN you can do a relink and work your way to the folder you need that way. Works fine.
I'm going to try renaming my Library now. Wish me luck. So useful to be able to do this.
Thank you kindly Al,
Ben

Tried opening a file in library and it states can't open database with library name? It says Relaunch then will not open? and Blocks me completely from Aperture. I have to go to Finder to Rename it? I need this file how do I get it to open?

Tried opening a file in library and it states can't open database with library name? It says Relaunch then will not open? and Blocks me completely from Aperture. I have to go to Finder to Rename it? I need this file how do I get it to open?

Aftershotz,
You're going to have to give a bit more information.
What do you mean by "opening a file in library?" There is no function of Aperture to open files -- you can open (switch) libraries.
You'll have to be more specific about error messages, too. Perhaps some screenshots would be useful to diagnose your problem. "Can't open database with library name" is not enough detail about what Aperture is really telling you.
nathan

"Check that the library name an prefix are correct." Yep, they are. Now what?

Hello,
I have a customer who is using a Labview wrapper for an IVI driver to create an application to send commands to an LXI instrument. The problem is even the initialize call results in the following error:
Driver Status: (Hex 0xBFFA000A) Check that the library name (VTEXSwitch.dll) and prefix (VTEXSwitch) are correct.
There are no problems communicating with the instrument using a web browser and NI-MAX sees the instrument fine. The customer gets this exact same error when they rename the actual DLL file to something different, which indicates to me that the labview wrapper isn't finding it at all. I've looked everywhere I can think of, but I can't see how Labview is supposed to know the path where it is looking for that DLL.
This same wrapper has worked for a lot of other people. I made sure they had installed the IVI Compliance Package and IVI Shared Components, and tried reinstalling the IVI driver from the manufacturer. The problem is still there. What should I do?

BurlapSage wrote:
I've looked everywhere I can think of, but I can't see how Labview is supposed to know the path where it is looking for that DLL.
Probably it uses the standard windows algorithm as described in MSDN

Swatch Library Name Limit

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