Replacers
The following list consists of special strings that, when processed by the Deployment Runtime component, are replaced by their appropriate values on the end users' machines.
In addition to providing Deployment Runtime replacers, Hummingbird supports the replacement of standard Windows environment variables with the appropriate values.
Replacer
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Represents
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Example
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$PROGRAMFILES$
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The Program Files directory.
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c:\Program Files
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$USERNAME$
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The name of the user logged into the PC.
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john.public
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$APPDIR$
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The HostExplorer installation directory.
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c:\Program Files\Hummingbird\Connectivity\version\HostExplorer
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$SYSDIR$
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The Windows system directory.
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c:\winnt\system32
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$WINDRIVE$
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The drive on which Windows is installed.
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c:
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$ORGANIZATION$
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The organization that you specified in the Web Server Information screen of the Deployment Wizard.
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Hummingbird Ltd.
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$USERDIR$
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The path to the user directory where the user files are stored, where user is the name of the user logged into the PC.
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c:\Documents and Settings\john
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$PROFILEDIR$
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The path to the Profile directory where the user files are stored on the user's machine.
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c:\Documents and Settings\john\Application Data\Hummingbird\Connectivity\Web Deployment\Profile
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$USERWINAPPDATA$
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The path to the Application Data directory where the user files are stored.
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c:\Documents and Settings\john\Application Data
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$ALLUSERWINAPPDATA$
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The path to the Application Data directory where the "All User" files are stored.
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c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data
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$DESKTOP$
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The path to the Desktop on the user's machine.
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c:\Documents and Settings\john\Desktop
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Note:
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Unlike the Windows environment variables, the Deployment Runtime replacers are consistent across Windows platforms. |
Related Topics
Step 9: Specifying Installation Settings
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