Help with Paraview Glance: Opening file by passing the fileURL as argument

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Hello,

I am am running Paraview Glance app based on instruction from github. I am using it as a simple viewer in my project. I want to know if there is any way to pass file as argument to viewer instead of using open dialog.

I was able to do something similar with Geometry Viewer as shown in documentation

https://kitware.github.io/vtk-js/examples/GeometryViewer/GeometryViewer.html?fileURL=https://data.kitware.com/api/v1/item/59de9de58d777f31ac641dc5/download

something like this: endPoint?fileURL=filePath

Is it possible to do with paraview glance?

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Hi,

Yes you can load data remotely. Here’s an example: https://kitware.github.io/paraview-glance/app/?name=diskout.vtp&url=https://data.kitware.com/api/v1/item/59de9de58d777f31ac641dc5/download

I’ll update Glance’s documentation to reflect this.

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Check out the docs on file loading: https://kitware.github.io/paraview-glance/doc/loading_files.html

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Hi @Forrest the documentation URL is no longer valid. Do you have the updated one ?

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Thanks for the ping! Yes, it’s updated to this URL: Loading Files | Glance

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Hi @Forrest,

I have a related questions

If my *.vtp files are locally generated (on my workstation), does it mean that I have to upload the files to some location before I can use this method ?

I tried the following but it just shows the file selection dialog from the glance server

xdg-open "https://kitware.github.io/glance/app/?name=monkey.vtp&url=file:///tmp/monkey.vtp"

Cheers

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You cannot load local files (i.e. file: protocol urls) using this method. The files must be accessible over http(s) in order for remote data loading to work.

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To expose your local files on the web, you can search for http server one liners such as in python python -m http.server or in js with npm install -g http-server; http-server;