TFML.org > Publishing a Case to MyPACS.net

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MyPACS provides a simple form-based service for publishing teaching file cases and images wrapped in a zip archive. The form can be accessed interactively through a web browser, or programmatically via a client application.

To import a case and images into MyPACS:

1. Create a MyPACS account if you do not already have one, using the signup form:
   
   http://www.mypacs.net/cgi-bin/dev/repos/mp_repo/signup.pl

2. Create a Teaching File Modeling Language (TFML) document describing your case (see http://tfml.org/schema.html). You can create this by hand using a text editor, or generate it programmatically. If you will be uploading the case from a client application, the TFML document should contain an add_case command specifying the username and password of the case owner.

3. Create a zip archive containing the TFML document and the images to be uploaded. You may do this interactively using a utility such as WinZip (http://www.winzip.com/), or programmatically using a module such as Archive::Zip (http://bike-nomad.com/perl/).

4. Upload the zip file to the case import form:
   
   http://www.mypacs.net/cgi-bin/dev/repos/mp_repo/nph-case-import-xml.pl.
   
   To publish a case interactively through a web browser, click Browse to locate and select the zip file, and then click Upload. MyPACS will indicate progress while it imports cases and uploads their images, and it will finish by providing you with links to all cases that have been imported.
   
   To publish a case programmatically, use the POST method to upload the zip file to the above URL. Post the zip file to a file upload field called ‘tfml_file’, and set the submit parameter Upload = 1.