Using variables in Preferences settings

[jeff_hooker]

Hi folks,
I'd like to be able to give my users a path that they can just copy/paste rather than having to navigate to parts of their computers which are frequently invisible to them, so I want to use a variable like this in the Actions panel of the AI preferences:
${env(LOCALAPPDATA)}\RWS\InfoShare Client\1913712966\Config\OxygenXMLAuthor\AI_JSON

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The %LOCALAPPDATA% variable resolves from a command window, and when I create a custom Author variable and define its value as %LOCALAPPDATA% and then use the custom variable in the Preferences interface, it resolves, but so far I can't make the ${env(LOCALAPPDATA)} resolve. What am I doing wrong?

[Radu]

Hi Jeff,
Strange, I think this should work.
What I do to check if Oxygen can expand an editor variable and to what value it expands it is to use the main menu File->"Open URL" action and in the URL chooser field which appears paste the path something like this:

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file:/${env(LOCALAPPDATA)}\RWS\InfoShare Client\1913712966\Config\OxygenXMLAuthor\AI_JSON/test.xml

Then press OK and Oxygen should attempt to expand the editor variable, create an URL and throw an error that the path to the XML is not found.

Regards,
Radu

[jeff_hooker]

You were correct; it does work. I was missing a part of the path.