does anyone know how can i determine the location of my documents on a computer other than the one that is running my program. I have a need to run a program at a scheduled time every month. The program will roll thru some data by salesmen and create a spreadsheet for that salesmen. I would like to save the spreadsheet in the salesmen's My Documents subdirectory. The only thing I ahve foudn so far is in wscript.shell called oWsh.SpecialFolders("MyDoc
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I think getenv('userprofile') gives you a better base path to "my docments", but there's API calls if you want to assure you get this special folder, even if it is not in it's default path.
See http://doughennig.blogspot
Besides that, Sedna addon for VFP9 offers the 'my' object, where you find this functionality in:
MY.Computer.FileSystem.Spe
Last not least on Vista SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
Bye, Olaf.
Since you must know something about the user - even if they are not currently logged in, such as their Windows login username, you can easily use that name to find the appropriate My Documents.
C:\Documents and Settings\<login name>\My Documents
Or you can have your VFP application use the ADIR() command on the C:\Documents and Settings\ directory to find the existing sub-directories representing the user 'accounts'. From that you can get the appropriate directory.
Good Luck
How about doing that job serverside, during night, when salesmen are logged out and their profile is stored serverside. Then you can add the files to the server stored user profiles. Advantage, you won't need to have all the computers of those salesman running to put in the files. second best solution, mail them the file.
Bye, Olaf.
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by: jrbbldrPosted on 2009-06-29 at 13:36:06ID: 24739976
SYS(2023) will give you the current Temp directory.
From knowing that information you should be able to determine the path for anything else you need.
Good Luck