Hey all,

In Exchange: is it possible to determine/change the ascii file path for import & export during runtime? Reason for asking this: I want my simple users to be able to start Exchange schemes (via a customized session and by using AFS). My only issue is the fact that the ascii import & export file paths are fixed in the Exchange schemes. What I want to achieve, is to give the user a pop-up screen in which the user enters the file location (for import the source file location, and for export the destination location). I know there is the predefined variable ascii.file.name, but I don't know if (and if so, then how and where) this variable can be used to allow the user to pass an alternate path during runtime.

Any tips are much appreciated!


Cheers,
Eli Nager

As far as I know this can't be done. I think it is part of the compile, but I don't know this for a fact. I would just ask the user the import directory and file name, then just move it to the correct location to process it.

You may also want to use the seq.* functions and skip exchange altogether.

http://www.baanboard.com/baanboard/showthread.php?t=50723&highlight=seq.gets

Hey Mark,

That was indeed going to be my alternative solution. Will do it that way.

Thanks anyway,
Eli

Eli,

Refer to my screenshot. Yes you can have exchange scheme for different companies/paths etc if you use the global environment variables. The only issue we encountered if 2 different company's jobs run at the same time, then the logs are messed up. Our job activation script populates the custom environment variables.