Ok your explanation is my understanding as well. Understood on Rich's 
report of 0 files copied - which is why I'm lost as to why it's failing 
since it should have 4 files to copy. The Belchertown highcharts skin 
should create new json files every archive interval, which should be a 
fresh copy to the HTML_DIR. 

Unless there's a typo in a config, or something else, that's preventing 
that from happening. My comment of "first I'm hearing of it" is in regards 
to the 3 or so beta testers of 0.8 who haven't reported this issue. 

My next step is to setup a like-for-like environment as best I can (I have 
one already just need to get it updated) and see what happens. Then go from 
there. 



On Monday, November 26, 2018 at 8:34:42 PM UTC-5, gjr80 wrote:
>
>
> On Tuesday, 27 November 2018 11:17:49 UTC+10, Pat wrote:
>>
>> I think you've lost me a bit on this one. 
>>
>> Your statement is true but the highcharts skin generates 4 json files on 
>> every archive interval. Which should be copied every time it runs I'd 
>> gather? 
>>
>
> No. I think we need to be clear here on what each of the generators do. 
> The report generator generates one or more files, in this case 4 .json 
> files,  in HTML_ROOT (of course if you happen to have .tmpl files in a 
> directory under your skin then the respective generated files will appear 
> in that same directory under HTML_ROOT). So if you set your HTML_ROOT to 
> the final destination you want the generated files to appear then once the 
> report generator is complete the generated files are there exactly where 
> you want them. The copy generator normally runs after the file generator 
> (depends on the generator order in skin.conf) and copies files as per its 
> config settings (once/always and file spec). You could of course have the 
> report generator put the file(s) in say /var/tmp and then use copy 
> generator to copy them from /var/tmp to your final destination but why 
> bother double processing. 
>  
>
>> This is the first I'm hearing of the skin ignoring the generated files?
>>
>
> Rich remarked on there being no files copied implying this meant that 
> something was amiss. I was trying to point out that this is quite normal 
> and expected behaviour for the Belchertown skins, it is not an indicator 
> that something is wrong. I don't believe that any generator is ignoring any 
> generated files based on the log extract provided.
>
> The copy_once, and copy_always files are invalid for the Belchertown 
>> highcharts skins and I never cleaned them up when I split the skin into 2 
>> parts. I'll do that shortly. 
>>
>
> Suspected this was the case but since none of the file specs are met the 
> copy generator was not doing anything anyway, its just a few extra 
> characters in a file and a few extra machine cycles taken to run copy 
> generator.
>
> Gary
>
>

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