TestTand directories

[LMartin]

Hi People,

I would like to get NI product installation directories (thinking about TestStand).

I think I got once a cmd command which shows (by typing TestStand+"something" on my cmd command prompt) TestStand installation directories.

such as (on windows seven):

 - C:\Program Files (x86)\National Instruments

 - C:\Users\Public\Documents\National Instruments

Note that those directories are different depending the OS you use !

But I cant remember this command.

Does anyone knows about it ? If not (may be I dreamt) does it exist ?

Thanks to all repliers...

[Scott_Richardson · Accepted solution]

To LMartin -

1) The TestStand Version Selector will define/set the following environment variables for the active version of TestStand:

• TestStand
• TestStandAppData
• TestStandPublic

So if you had used %TestStand% on the command-line then this would have resolved to the appropriate directory.

2) The only way to determine the directory for a non-active version of TestStand is to access the registry based on the major/minor version number of the product.

For example on a 32-bit OS:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\National Instruments\TestStand\5.0\Path

or on a 64-bit OS:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\National Instruments\TestStand\5.0\Path

[RaviShrigiri]

In case you want it programmatically ( run time) use the statement step with the following API - RunState.Engine.GetTestStandPath(variable_inputs)

Based on the variable_inputs selected different TestStand paths ( ex config path or program files path or public path etc) will be displayed.

Refer help document for this API.

[LMartin]

Now that I know that it is an environment variable,

the command is set TestStand on cmd prompt which gives the directories paths I was looking for.

Thanks to you Scott_Richardson for this detailed explanations,

and to you SunRS for this tip.

Cheers !