How To: Reference Windows User, Paths, or other Environment Variables in a Workflow

[MattD]

How To: Reference Windows User, Paths, or other Environment Variables in a Workflow

Did you know that you can call upon environment variables in Windows from a Formula tool?

Prerequisites

• Alteryx Designer

Procedure

1. To see the variables you have access to, navigate to Control Panel > System > Advanced system settings > Environment Variables on your Windows machine.
   
   
2. Take note of the names of the variables stored there.
   
   
   
    
3. If you want to include them in a workflow or report created with Alteyrx, just give them a call using the GetEnvironmentVariable() function:
   
   
    

[RodLight]

@MattD

Is there a place where all of the Alteryx environmental variables are found?

What I'm talking about are the variables that can be used in Email events (e.g., %User%, %NumErrors%, etc.)

Thanks

[dawnh80]

@RodLight Aren't these stored in the C:\Program Files\Alteryx\bin folder?