Files with %USERPROFILE% Path and how to execute bat file from Omnis.

Hi An,

> On 16 Mar 2018, at 12:00 am, omnisdev-en-request@lists.omnis-dev.com wrote:
>
> I’m trying to create a file on a windows machine with FileOps. The local path I’m using is %userprofile%appdatalocaldaveexportpdf. The reason I use this is because we are on a terminal server and I want to temporarily create some files in the temp folder to than later copy them to a file server.
>
> Now when I do FileOps.$createdir( %userprofile%appdatalocaldaveexportpdf) I get the error -43 (File Not Found).
> When I do the same methode with FileOps.$createdir(C:Usersan.bayensappdatalocaldaveexportpd) which is the exact same folder it works.
> Is it possible that FileOps cannot translate %userprofile%?

That’s correct – as far as I know, you can’t use %userprofile% like that in FileOps. Is that an environment variable? You can use getenv(‘userprofile’) to return the value of %userprofile%, and then put this into your batch.

> Then after my files are created in the temp folder I want to copy the whole folder to a network drive. Because I don’t see an function in Omnis to copy a complete folder I created a script to do this.
> Now I want to run this script from Omnis but I’m not really sure how to do this.
> I tried this but it doesn’t work.
> So I have my move.bat which needs 2 parameters. When I just execute this command in a terminal windows it works perfectly.
>
> Switch sys(6)
> Case ‘N’
> Calculate script as con(‘”C:DavePrefsmove.bat ‘,iListPrefs.4.C2,’ ‘,iListPrefs.1.C2,'”‘)
> Start program maximized {[script]}
> If flag false
> OK message (Icon,Sound bell) {Copy failed}
> End If
> End Switch

When you want to run batchfiles/apps with parameters you need to use something like this:

Start program normal {cmd.exe /C “[batch_file_name]”}

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Paul.

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