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barcher
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What we are trying to do is create an &-parameter that we can reference in HTML output that will show a the location of a .fex within the Content tree.

For example:

Say Procedure1.fex is saved in the content tree in Folder_1/Subfolder_A, so we would create a parameter &LOCATION_PARAMETER that reads "Folder_1/Subfolder_A/Procedure1.fex".

I searched through the documentation and in the forum, but I wasn't finding anything close. Does anyone know if this is possible?

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Francis Mariani
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The problem with this scenario is that a fex with the same name could be in multiple folders - how would you deal with this?


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Francis,

I see what you mean. For our purposes we wouldn't be concerned with every FEX with that name. Instead we only care about the location in the repository of the current running fex. Our aim is to create a -TYPE (or something similar) with &LOCATION_PARAMETER so that when we troubleshoot a fex we can more easily determine the location in the repository, instead of tracking down the person who created it.

I did find a parameter in our environment, &IBIMR_fullpath, that appears to be the parameter I am looking for. I'm not entirely sure how this is defined, so I can't say if fex's with the same name are still a problem.

A more clear example:

&LOCATION_PARAMETER would not be visible by the user, but by viewing source you would see the -TYPE and the commented code. So the user would only see the report, but when viewing source we would be able to see the value of &LOCATION_PARAMETER.

  
-* prints the location in the repository of 
-* the FEX.
-TYPE Location of this FEX: &LOCATION_PARAMETER

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
      MAKE
BY    COUNTRY
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML
END


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Francis Mariani
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I didn't quite understand your original question, but yes, &IBIMR_fullpath is the correct parameter to use - you should never have a duplicate &IBIMR_fullpath (not that it matters).

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Thanks for the help.

I also found &IBIMR_domain (showing the domain name) and &IBIMR_folder (showing the folder name containing the fex), which may help because there appears to be a limit on the string length for IBIMR_fullpath.


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