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RE: How to get current PATH from .PTS

New Boundary Support — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:28:42 GMT

You could use a package to create a temporary variable that the client could then use during it's session. Essentially a package could read the registry location and then place that value into a named variable that the client would then later be able to reference. An example package is attached. View the Variables tab of the properties to see how it is set up.

If this package is included at the beginning of a Prism Script, then the REPLICA_SOURCE variable can be used to point to whatever the new location may be.

RE: How to get current PATH from .PTS

SebCestBien — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:56:33 GMT

In facts %REPLICA_SOURCE% is our repository for all our packages...

It's not the role to the Script to move the Source folder....
but if I move the script on another location it must have the capabilities to self-resolve theirs path...

RE: How to get current PATH from .PTS

New Boundary Support — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:04:35 GMT

Have you tried creating a seperate .batch file to do the folder move and then calling that .bat file from within the script.

As long as the batch file doesn't need elevation, you should be able to continue running the script the way you are now without changing who it is running as.

How to get current PATH from .PTS

SebCestBien — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 05:43:22 GMT

Hello,

I'have Prism installation script based on variables like this:

/run /wait msiexec.exe /i "%REPLICA_SOURCE%\%APPNAME%\Sources\msifile.msi" /q

where %REPLICA_SOURCE% is resolved as a UNC path (“\\server\share”)
and %APPNAME% is the name of application…

All is working like a charm…

Now I want to move the application folder to another server... I have to change the %REPLICA_SOURCE% variable… but I want to make this automatically...
This is the challenge…

First attempt: Trying to use %CD%

%CD% is a batch variable that is normally resolved to the current folder in a batch file…

But in prism script (.pts) this doesn’t work...

Example after executing:

/scriptver 5
/run /wait %comspec% /c echo “%CD%” > test.txt

test.txt contain:

Second attempt: Set an Environment variable dynamically

I /run a simple application that write an user Environment variable like this (in c#) :

Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("PRISM_SHARE", Parentdir, EnvironmentVariableTarget.User);

But pts script doesn’t see variable because is need to restart pts to take modification of environment variable. (I’ has tried to create variable in Process, user and machine… with all the same result)

Third attempt: Get path from registry

I /run a simple application that write in registry the Current path
and I want to get it in .PTS:

/SET REPLICA_SOURCE <Registry Value> "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\\TESTVAR"

But this doesn’t work...

Now I don’t have more idea to pass variable to .PTS

Can you help me?

Thanks a lot

Sebastien