Re: alternative to hard coding a directory location?
From: Elias Asfaw-Kirby <elias_at_icpsr.umich.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:45:00 -0500
Message-ID: <6yNE9.1228$ho1.84057_at_news.itd.umich.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:45:00 -0500
Message-ID: <6yNE9.1228$ho1.84057_at_news.itd.umich.edu>
We do the same type of thing:
[Quoted] Open_form('filename');
In windows environment set:
FORMS60_PATH=C:\MyForms
[Quoted] or what your path is.
If you call a report from forms there is a REPORTS60_PATH also
Elias Asfaw-Kirby
elias at icpsr dot umich - edu
-- --- "Sybrand Bakker" <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote in message news:a20d28ee.0211060057.2d5ce2f9_at_posting.google.com...Received on Tue Nov 26 2002 - 17:45:00 CET
> 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