EXE for another computer

[trauch]

I have created a simple task to open our web form and 3 text files all located in a folder on the desktop. Using the record task creator the system enters single line data from each text file into appropriate text boxes on our form.

Everything works well on the computer that we created the task but when we try to create an EXE to run on a second computer the tasks are unable to find the text files. I'm assuming the problem is the folder/file structure but dont know how to create a relative path for the files.

The file structure for each computer will be different so I figure I'll need the relative path. Can anyone help? Below is the location of the original file as seen in the "Open Program / File Action Perameters"

c:\Documents and Settings\Analysis1\Desktop\Data\launch\working.txt

Thanks for any assistance.

[forumsupport]

Hello,

You can put your text files on shared network and access it from there. Your requirement of Relative path for variable text file has already been forwarded to our product development team.

[kylepyro]

There are a couple of other ideas. 1) use the All Users Desktop. 2) you can also determine the user with something like

echo %UserProfile%\Desktop > c:\dir\filename.csv in a cmd window.

This will write the string "currentuser\desktop" into a csv which you can then read back and use to construct the pathname you want in a variable. The variable can then be used in an

open file $Pathname$\filename.ext

cheers!