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- Name/Version: MetaScan.avx
- Reviewer / Date: Hugh Phillips / March 1999
- Function: HTML/Text Metadata Display Extension for Arcview
- Usage Information and Software: No longer available (12/13/2001)
- Platform:
- ESRI ArcView version that supports extensions (3+, but < 8.1). Display of HTML metadata requires a Web browser
- Principal Contact: Formerly Bruce Westcott, RTSe USA
- Date of last known release: 3/3/99
- Status: No longer available. The extension was last distributed by RTSe USA, but when the metadata arm of that company (SMMS primarily) was acquired by Intergraph, they (Intergraph) elected not to continue supporting this product. If you can find it out there in a dusty bin on the Internet, it will probably work just fine.
- Metadata Storage Structure: Not applicable
- Brief Description:
- If the MetaScan extension has been loaded in an ArcView project, it adds a button
 to ArcView's button bar when a View is active. If a theme (vector or image) is active and there is an HTML (.html or .htm) or text document (.txt or .met) with the same root name as the active dataset in the same directory as the dataset, then the document will be displayed in a web browser or a text window respectively when the MetaScan button is mashed. The associated documents do not have to be created with Enabling Technologies SMMS metadata tool or necessarily even be metadata.
- Cost: None
- Notable Plus: Does a tightly focussed job well
- Metadata Exchange: Not applicable
- Useability:
- Administrative:
- Installation merely requires that the metascan.avx file be installed into ArcView's Ext32 directory to be available as an extension to all users. The extension is supplied in unencrypted form, so if a site had text metadata with extensions other than .txt or .met, the metascan.avx file could be modified.
- Tool Reliability:
- No operational problems have been noted. If an active theme does not have an associated HTML or text document, the extension returns an error window conveying that it cannot find a document of those types for the theme. If several themes are active when the MetaScan button is activated, their HTML documents will load successively into a browser window, or their text documents will be displayed in separate text windows. If a document has several associated documents, they will be displayed with the preference order .html, .htm, .met, .txt.
- Sample of Interface:
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