Not able to see environment variables in Administrator

madhukar · Post by **madhukar** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:34 am

Hi All,

Not able to see any project environment variables in Administrator.
I tried with reindexing. Reindex was successful but env variables didn't come up in the project.

Any suggestions...

Regards,
Madhukar

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 4:46 pm

Check to see whether anyone has removed the DSParams file from your project directory on the server.

If they have, kill them.

madhukar · Post by **madhukar** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 1:18 pm

Ray,

As you are always...you got it.
somebody had edited the DSParams file.
But couldnot get the culprit as all users use same log in.

Thanks for the help

Regards,
Madhukar

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 4:32 pm

Alas, you'll need to kill them all!

krystlecsy · Post by **krystlecsy** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:12 pm

I am curious to know does the DSParam file gets generated by every Project? Is this a requirement? What if the file does not exist in the Project folder?

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 12:05 am

The DSParams file is created when the project is created.

If the file does not exist then many things, such as the Administrator client, the Expression Editor, and so on will not work.

krystlecsy · Post by **krystlecsy** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:12 pm

Can I also know that if we were to automate the process of updating the DSParam file, will it immediately reflect the value changes in the Administrator?

Do you have any idea of doing so?

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:18 pm

The process of updating the DSParams file *is* automated and not something you generally need to worry about. What do you mean by your statement? Can you be more specific?

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 8:00 pm

If you mean migrating the changes wrought in one project to another project, then the answer is no. The vendor has never given any official reason for this though, off the record, the view was expressed that one would expect the environment variables to be different in different projects and therefore set up via the Administrator client in each project.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 10:27 pm

That was my assumption as well of the meaning behind the query, but wanted the interloper to spell it out.

krystlecsy · Post by **krystlecsy** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 9:54 pm

Actually I am not focusing on the migration of the DSParam, what I had in mind is to automate the process of updating a value in DSParam monthly in order for the reflect the latest changes during the job execution every month. Has anyone done that before?

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 12:26 am

No but, since DSParams is a text file, it could easily be done with appropriate care not to break the file.