Designlink possible with Farnell (Europe) ordercodes?

On 10/6/2013 12:38 PM, Joop14 wrote:

Hello,

 

I tried to use the Designlink button in Eagle but it seems to work only

with Newark.

Because I'm located in Europe, is it possible to use Designlink with the

Farnell database instead?

The ordercodes generated by Newark don't seem to be accepted by the

Farnell (Europe) website.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Joop

 

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Hi Joop,

I hope you're doing well. This is possible, you're going to have to get

your hands a little dirty but it's possible.

1. Open up the designlink-inc.ulp file included with EAGLE for editing.

2. On line 17 you're going to find a string variable called DILanguage

whose value is assigned by a function called language(), remember it

we're going to go back to it.

3. Starting on line 247 you're going to find a list of Country codes.

Find the two-letter symbol for your country.

4. Go back to line 17, and we're going to hard code you're country.

Comment out the language() function call. Then type in the two-letter

code you found in step 3 within double quotes.

Save the designlink-inc.ulp. Now next time you run Designlink if should

find the correct information.

Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

Best Regards,

Jorge Garcia

On 07.10.2013 20:35, Jorge Garcia wrote:

On 10/6/2013 12:38 PM, Joop14 wrote:

Hello,

 

I tried to use the Designlink button in Eagle but it seems to work only

with Newark.

Because I'm located in Europe, is it possible to use Designlink with the

Farnell database instead?

The ordercodes generated by Newark don't seem to be accepted by the

Farnell (Europe) website.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Joop

 

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Hi Joop,

 

I hope you're doing well. This is possible, you're going to have to get

your hands a little dirty but it's possible.

 

1. Open up the designlink-inc.ulp file included with EAGLE for editing.

2. On line 17 you're going to find a string variable called DILanguage

whose value is assigned by a function called language(), remember it

we're going to go back to it.

3. Starting on line 247 you're going to find a list of Country codes.

Find the two-letter symbol for your country.

4. Go back to line 17, and we're going to hard code you're country.

Comment out the language() function call. Then type in the two-letter

code you found in step 3 within double quotes.

 

Save the designlink-inc.ulp. Now next time you run Designlink if should

find the correct information.

 

Let me know if there's anything else I can do for you.

 

Best Regards,

Jorge Garcia

Hi Jorge,

I think it is also possible to set the environment variable

for LANG  for example to en_GB. This should contact the UK

Farnell server.

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Thanks Richard,

Best Regards,

Jorge Garcia

Hi guys,

I'm from Belgium and tried to do the modification of the file, but it didn't seem to work. Perhaps I mistakenly did something wrong.

I have modified the file to this:

string DILanguage = "BE EUR 0 be.farnell.com";//language();

When I click the DesignLink button in Eagle, if gives me the following warning:

Error while accessing 'https://api.element14.com/pffind/services/SearchService':

299 Error downloading https://api.element14.com/pffind/services/SearchService?callinfo.apiKey=sf4kqy6u29tkt95gg5a3wejz - server replied: Bad Request

<h1>Bad Request</h1>

Any ideas? I would love to have access to the belgian farnell database as well.

Thanks a lot,

Jens

On 10/16/2013 11:58 AM, Jens Vanhoof wrote:

Hi guys,

 

I'm from Belgium and tried to do the modification of the file, but it

didn't seem to work. Perhaps I mistakenly did something wrong.

I have modified the file to this:

 

string DILanguage = "BE EUR 0 be.farnell.com";//language();

Hi Jens,

The string DILanguage variable should only have the two letter reference

so in this case it would be:

string DILanguage= "BE";//language();

hth,

Jorge Garcia

Cadsoft Support

Hi Jorge,

Thanks for the response. I tried your suggestion but exactly the same error pops up. Is it normal that, even with DILanguage set to "BE", Eagle still tries to contact api.element14.com?

I tried to set DICountry also to BE, but the same problem remains. (I restarted EAGLE when I modified the configuration file.

Any other suggestions? As a reference, I uploaded the file as it is now to here: www.jensvanhoof.be/designlink-inc.ulp

Thanks!

Hi Jorge,

I'm having exactly the same problem here. All options have been tried but I cannot get into the Dutch ("NL") Farnell store. Only into Newark.

Any further suggestions on how to solve this?

Thanks,

Martin

Jens,

I am experiencing the same problem you have. I got the script to recognize the correct country by copying the 3 designlink ULP files to a separate folder, then making the change to desiglink-inc.ulp

DIcountry = "BE";

(Note, making the change to 'language' does not seem to work).

Then run the script designlink-order.ulp from the folder you copied the scripts to. The script then at least tries to connect to the service defined for Belgium. I verified this by adding a debug print statement in the designlink-inc.ulp InitCountryData function.

Unfortunately I then get an error:

Error while accessing 'https://api.element14.com/pffind/services/SearchService':

299 Error downloading https://api.element14.com/pffind/services/SearchService?callinfo.apiKey=<snip> - server replied: Bad Request

<h1>Bad Request</h1>

So apparently this functionality is broken for Belgium. You can get it partially working by changing the DIcountry to "UK", note that you get price in pounds then but at least the order codes seem to be correct.

@jorge can you please check why designlink is not working for country code "BE"? I guess there is some configuration on the API server that does not allow request with the country code "BE".

Kind regards,

Lieven.

A follow-up: when I change the country information line of 'UK' to

   "UK EUR 0 be.farnell.com",

and set DIcountry = "UK"

Then the designlink process seems to work.

Hi Lieven,

Can you post your designlink-inc.ulp for Belgium ?

I modified it according you suggestion but It doesnt work for me

many thanks in advance

Jean-Luc