Environment variables & Tabs

[Majkyy]

Hi,

I'm a SW developer from a middle size company (bought 100+ TC licenses ) and this one improvement in TC would make our life much easier:

We'd like Tabs to support system variables in their path. Example: Tab named "System32" would point to %WinDir%system32 and the full path would be resolved every time I switch to the Tab.

Proposal: editing manually the *.tab file to change the fixed path for something with the environment variable is sufficient way how to specify the variable path.

Bonus: it would be great it TC reflected change of variable value @ run time without restart needed, but I know it's not easy to do.

Thanks for considering this,
Michal

[ghisler(Author)]

This is supported, I just tried it - but you forgot a backslash:
%WinDir%\system32

However, when TC saves the tabs, the variable is lost.

[Majkyy]

Yes, the problem is that from the moment tabs are saved again, e.g by selecting Configuration/Save settings, the environment variables are lost.
Can you possibly make a simple modification to maintain the variables when saving tabs?

The problem starts to be painful in this scenario: ~10 VMs run TC from one share on a server. Each VM has a different system variables defined and wants to use tabs to quickly access directories. Whenever any VM saves the tabs, these get all screwed up for other VMs

[ghisler(Author)]

I will check whether this could be done for locked tabs. No chance for unlocked tabs, because the user can change directories (and multiple variables could match parts of the path).

[Majkyy]

Having this fixed just for locked tabs is fully sufficient, thanks.