Environment

Retrieves the value of a specified name-value pair of a specified registry key.

Parameters

Parameter	Input Type	Description
registry key	Text	The full registry key name, for example: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Keyboard Layout\Preload
name	Text	The name of the name-value pair for which to return the value

Returns

Returns the value as text.

Example

A computer's registry values are shown below.

This example reads the value of the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Keyboard Layout\Preload for the name 2 and writes it to the text variable value.

When executed, key_value is set to 0000040d as expected.

Retrieves the value of a specified system property. The following types of system properties are supported:

• Windows environment variables

  The list of supported variables is shown below. The system variable names are not case sensitive.

  SYstem Variable	Example Value
  ALLUSERSPROFILE	C:\Documents and Settings\All Users
  APPDATA	C:\Documents and Settings\gilat\Application Data

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  SYstem Variable	Example Value
  CLIENTNAME	Console
  CommonProgramFiles	C:\Program Files\Common Files
  COMPUTERNAME	JSmith
  ComSpec	C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
  FP_NO_HOST_CHECK	NO
  HOMEDRIVE	C:
  HOMEPATH	\Documents and Settings\jsmith
  LOGONSERVER	\\FRIDA
  NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS	2
  OS	Windows_NT
  Path	C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS; C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
  PATHEXT	.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
  PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE	x86
  PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER	x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 9, GenuineIntel
  PROCESSOR_LEVEL	15
  PROCESSOR_REVISION	0209
  ProgramFiles	C:\Program Files
  PROMPT	$P$G
  SESSIONNAME	Console
  SystemDrive	C:
  SystemRoot	C:\WINDOWS
  TEMP	C:\DOCUME~1\jsmith\LOCALS~1\Temp
  TMP	C:\DOCUME~1\jsmith\LOCALS~1\Temp
  USERDNSDOMAIN	E-GLUE.COM
  USERDOMAIN	E-GLUE
  USERNAME	jsmith
  USERPROFILE	C:\Documents and Settings\jsmith
  WINDIR	C:\WINDOWS

• Custom system properties

  You can create and set the values of custom system properties using Set System Property.

  Custom system properties created by Set System Property are created per session only so can only be read using Get System Property in the same session as which they are created.

Parameters

Parameter	Input Type	Description
property name	Text	The name of the system property

Returns

Returns the value of the system property as text.

Example

The workflow below retrieves the value of the Windows environment variable WINDIR and stores it in the text variable windir_value. It then retrieves the value of a custom system property my_system_property and stores it in the text variable my_property_value.

Sets the value of a writable system property. You can also create a custom system property and set its value.

Custom system properties created by Set System Property are created per session only so can only be read using Get System Property in the same session as which they are created.

Parameters

Parameter	Input Type	Description
property name	Text	The name of the system property to set
value	Text	The value to assign to the system property

Returns

Nothing

Example

The workflow below creates a custom system property called my_system_property and sets its value to 5.