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We are running a project where we use a CMS (Sitecore) to feed InDesign with content to dynamically create a product catalog.

In short we create components in Sitecore that then can be dragged into InDesign and be connected to a certain page in the CMS. We then pull images from the CMS into the InDesign document.

The problem: On the product pages we fetch images from a network share instead of the CMS. And we do so from a network link in the format \\ip\folder\file.jpg This works great in our Windows environment but not at all in OSX.

From what I understand the \\ip\folder\file.jpg format is a windows specific one, so we have also tried the smb://ip/folder/file.jpg format without luck. The SMB-path actually crashes both the windows and mac version of InDesign.

Any ideas would be hugely appreciated!

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Feedback from sitecore:

  • Add server as network share in Finder. (eg smb://192.169.0.100)
  • Extend the user profile in sitecore so we can set the user to be a OSX or windows user.
  • If user is mac, output path as folder:subfolder:file.jpg
  • If user is PC, output path as \\192.168.0.100\folder\subfolder\file.jpg
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