Article ID: 931082
Article Last Modified on 2/14/2007
APPLIES TO
- Profile Maker Professional 8.0
- Profile Maker Professional 9.0
INTRODUCTION
This article describes how to obtain a directory value in Desktop Standard Profile Maker.
MORE INFORMATION
To obtain a directory value and store it in an environment variable for use in Profile Maker, follow these steps:
Paste the following script in a text file. Then, save the text file as Obdirvalue.vbs.
' VBScript to determine the server name of the user's mapped ' home directory or the drive letter of the local home directory ' and pass that value to Profile Maker as an environment ' variable named %HomeServer% ' Enable error handling and prevent error messages On Error Resume Next Dim objUser Dim wshShell Dim wshEnv Dim nPos Dim strServer ' get home directory from server Set objUser = GetObject("WinNT://%UserDomain%/%UserName%") ' parse out server name (or drive letter if local) nPos = InStr(3, objUser.HomeDirectory, "\") strServer = Left(objUser.HomeDirectory, nPos-1) ' set value into volatile variable for Profile Maker ' will set to empy string if error occurred or value not set Set wshShell = Wscript.C
- At the command prompt, move to the folder in which you saved the file in step 1.
- Type the following command, and then press ENTER:
cscript obdirvalue.vbs
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