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Get temporal folder from a specific user

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Hi

Anyone know how to get temporal user folder for a specific user?

If I use it

System.IO.Path::GetTempPath();
WinAPI::getTempPath();

return tmp folder from current user.

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    Vilmos Kintera Profile Picture
    46,149 on at

    How about combining WinAPI::getTempPath with RunAs() to impersonate the user?

    https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa893873.aspx

  • Mea_ Profile Picture
    60,284 on at

    @Vilmos Kintera

    And he will probably get folder of AOS user because all code in runAs is executed in CIL and you have to run runAs on server tier...

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    Vilmos Kintera Profile Picture
    46,149 on at

    You are correct, runAs does require server-side execution.

    Javier, you could get the SID of the user account you want to get the temp path for from the UserInfo.SID table/field.

    Then you could access the Registry key under HKEY_USERS\SID\Environment under which there is either a TMP or Temp expandable string value, holding the temp folder for the user you are interested in.

    Here is an example of how to handle registry in AX (this is very old, you should probably use .Net namespaces to do it in a more modern way):

    https://fredshen.wordpress.com/2006/03/16/read-and-alter-registry-settings-in-axapta/

  • XB Profile Picture
    1,875 on at

    I'm getting an error

    static void main(Args _a)
    {
    RunAsPermission perm;
    UserId runAsUser;
    SysUserInfo userInfo;
    container con;

    userInfo = SysUserInfo::find();
    runAsUser = userInfo.Id;
    perm = new RunAsPermission(runAsUser);
    perm.assert();

    con = runAs(runAsUser, classnum(test), staticMethodStr(Test, testmethod));

    info(conPeek(con,1));

    CodeAccessPermission::revertAssert();
    }

    static container testmethod()
    {
    return [WinApiServer::getTempPath()];
    }

    Microsoft.Dynamics.Ax.Xpp.ErrorException: Exception of type 'Microsoft.Dynamics.Ax.Xpp.ErrorException' was thrown.
    at Microsoft.Dynamics.Ax.MSIL.Interop.throwException(Int32 ExceptionValue)
    at Microsoft.Dynamics.Ax.MSIL.Interop.ThrowCQLFuncError(IL_CQL_ERR cqlErr, String typeName, String methodName)
    at Microsoft.Dynamics.Ax.Xpp.ReflectionCallHelper.MakeStaticCall(Type type, String MethodName, Object[] parameters)
    at Microsoft.Dynamics.Ax.Xpp.PredefinedFunctions.runAsInvoke(String className, String staticMethodName, Object[] parms, Object[]& exportInfolog)

  • XB Profile Picture
    1,875 on at

    ok Vilmos Kintera

    I'll check it

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    Vilmos Kintera Profile Picture
    46,149 on at

    That should work, however do not forget that if it has a Windows path reference like %USERPROFILE% that will replace as your user account.

    I think the userprofile value sits under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\SID\ProfileImagePath, see if that works - or you might want to google this if that does not look right.

  • Mea_ Profile Picture
    60,284 on at

    Why are doing this at all ? Because if you have a user in AX it does not mean that this user will have a folder on same workstation as you running AX client, so you will receive nothing. Second thing is security you may won't have access to users folder as well.

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