Re: alternative to hard coding a directory location?

mburns_at_sjm.com (Mark Burns) wrote in message news:<549bf180.0211050943.22a96c3d_at_posting.google.com>...
> I am trying to help out a coworker who is using a hard coded location
> to open another form with a trigger on button. She is currently using
> this format to call the file
> OPEN_FORM('W:\xxx\yyy\filename');
>
> and I would like to change this to something like
>
> OPEN_FORM($Home'filename');
>
> So that trigger calls the file that is in the same directory as the
> menu file that is calling it. This will help us to use source control
> a little more efficently.
>
> thanks
> Mark Burns

Using '%<ENV VAR>%/filename' should do the trick.

Hth

Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA Received on Wed Nov 06 2002 - 09:57:24 CET