Setting a session environment variable??

[sparkbyte]

I need to be able to set a session based environment variable for an application to run properly.

Dim objShell
set objShell = CreateObject("wscript.Shell")

        sExePath = "E:\PROGRA~1\CoreDir\CORE_M~1\SYNERG~1\dbl\bin\dbr.exe"
        sSwitches = "BIN:MNUMNU"
            objShell.exec [red][b]"SET E:\PROGRA~1\CoreDir\Users\" & strUser & "\BK" & strBank[/b][/red] &_ 
            " && " & Chr(34) & sExePath & Chr(34) & " " & sSwitches

This fails with a cannot find file error. I assume this is because of the SET ... && ... (trying to run 2 commands from one command line input.

Can someone help me here? It needs to be done as a session only variable because using the "USER" of "SYSTEM" setting causes problems with our support staff because the envionment variable set at that level makes it so they cannot deal with multiple open sessions set to different banks.

Thanks


Thanks

John Fuhrman
Titan Global Services

http://www.titangs.com

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[PHV]

Anyway, the SET instruction is wrong.

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[PHV]

OOps, hit submit too fast.
Furthermore you have to execute the command interpreter:
objShell.exec "CMD /C SET yourVariable=E:\PROGRA~1\CoreDir\Users\" & strUser & "\BK" & strBank & _
...

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[sparkbyte]

Thanks PHV, I have tried adding the comspec and this did help. What happens now is that the environment variable gets set but the 2nd command is never ran and the DOS windows is stuck open until you kill the process for CMD.

Thanks

Thanks

John Fuhrman
Titan Global Services

http://www.titangs.com

faq329-6766

 

[GrimR]

Dim WshShell: Set WshShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")

'Write to Users env variables

WshShell.Environment("USER").Item("TMP") = "C:\%systemroot%\TMP"
WshShell.Environment("USER").Item("TEMP") = "C:\%systemroot%\TEMP"

'Write to System env variables
WshShell.Environment("SYSTEM").Item("YourName3") = "world"

 

[pce0]

You can use the code below to obtain an existing environment variable:

set objShell=CreateObject("wscript.shell")
strTemp=objShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%temp%")


I believe there is a related function to set a variable aswell - just not sure exactly what it is !