Software Deployment

Assuming that your username you login into Business objects os the same as you logon name, you'll need to create a custom action to set the username as a property.

You need to create a 'Set Property' custom action.
Under the Property name setting enter "USERNAME" (without the quotes, or you can call this whatever you'd like)
Under the Property Value enter "[%USERNAME]" (without the quotes, this pull the current USERNAME from the environment variables.

So your registry key will look like this

HKCU\Software\Business Objects\Suite 11.5\default\BusinesObjects\[USERNAME] User Prefs

Hope that makes sense.

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

This is what I did.
Created a property USERNAME, Value USERNAME

Custom Actions, opened Set Property.
Name: Set Property
Property: from the drop down list i selected USERNAME
Value: %USERNAME%

Was this correct? Probably not.

It didn't fix the problem.

Please let me know what I did incorrect.

Thanks.

the value is not %username% it is

[%Username]

lookup the word "formatted" in the SDK for more detail on how this works.

Either use the %USERNAME% environment variable as John suggested ([%USERNAME]) or if you're gonna use the USERNAME property ([USERNAME]) then make sure it's not predefined in the Property table and the NOUSERNAME property is to 1 as this would prevent the USERNAME property from being set to the value from the registry.

Hi guys,

Sorry for the late reply. Changed jobs in the meantime.

Anyway, the solution turned out to be [LogonUser]
HKCU\Software\Business Objects\Suite 11.5\default\BusinesObjects\[LogonUser] User Pref

Thanks for your help.

Gizsha