Environment Variables Actions

Description: Windows Environment variables are strings that contain information about various system components as well as certain basic system information (e.g., drive, path and file name). They control the behavior of the system and various programs. Environment variables are very convenient in scripts where certain standard directories and parameters need to be referenced but where the actual locations or names can vary from computer to computer.

This action encompasses a number of activities aimed to the creation, manipulation and management of environment variables in a Windows-based operating system without the use of scripts or the command line. Activities include the ability to get, set, list and delete environment variables as well as append data to an existing environment variable.

Available Activities

The following table briefly describes the available activities for this action arranged in alphabetical order as specified in the action's Activity to perform parameter. Click the appropriate link for more details regarding each activity.

Activity	Description
Environment Variables - Append	Appends text to a system or user-level environment variable and populate a variable with the resulting value.
Environment Variables - Get	Retrieves the value of a system-level or user-level environment variable and places it into a variable.
Environment Variables - List	Populates a dataset with the names and values of a specified type of environment variable.
Environment Variables - Remove	Removes a system or user-level environment variable.
Environment Variables - Set	Sets the value of a system-level or user-level environment variable, and optionally creates the variable if it does not exist.