computer name with environmental variable

jam176

hello!

i'm looking for an easy way to find out the current computername. searching the forum i found a topic where the environmental variable %COMPUTERNAME% was mentioned.

well, but how can i read this variable? i tried out

sCN:= ENVIRON(Computername);

but the result is nonsens.

environment: windows 2000, navision 3.60

can anyone give an advice?

thx
jam176

jhoek

Open a command prompt on your Win2K machine and type SET | MORE. Do you see a variable called COMPUTERNAME?

jam176

yes, i do!

jhoek

Perhaps the variable names are case sensitive?! Could you call the ENVIRON function and pass the variable name, using the exact same character case as you saw in your Command Prompt window?

HalMdy

You have to put COMPUTERNAME between ' .

Try :
MESSAGE('%1',ENVIRON('COMPUTERNAME'));

It works ...

jam176

that's it! boah! thanks a lot. quite simple, isn't it. shame on me.

thanx again jhoek!

jhoek

I don't think your code would compile if you forget the quotes?! Or... do you perhaps have a variable named ComputerName in the same object/scope?

jam176

ineet i've made a big mistake:

the environ() call is inside a table, where computername is a tablefield! when i called computername without the qoutes i got the fielddata instead of the environmental varible.

thank you all!

jhoek

At the risk of sounding like a standards zealot...

Field names should be in English, and in that language, I believe ["computername"] would be written as "computer name" (with a space). In this particular case, spelling the field name like that would have prevented some rather time-consuming troubleshooting...

And yes, I know, I should mind my own business...