Folder paths and file paths

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In many places in Delivery Manager, you must specify where folders and files are located on the file system. All folder paths and file paths must meet the following conditions:

A path may not contain any forward slashes ('/').

A path may not end in a backslash ('\').

A path leads to a file if the last element in the path is a file name, and otherwise it leads to a folder. In practice, a file name is usually easy to recognise by its file extension (.XML, .TXT, .PDF and so on). It is important that you use a path leading to a folder when a folder is called for, and a path leading to a file when a file is called for, but Delivery Manager does not enforce this. The distinction cannot be made by a machine because folder names are also allowed to contain full stops, and conversely, file names do not necessarily have a file extension.

Delivery Manager has three path types:

Path type

Description

Examples

Absolute path

A path starting with a drive letter followed by a backslash, or with a double backslash

('\\').

C:\temp\backup

 

C:\temp\backup\readme.txt

 

c:\

 

\\fs.usoft.com\app$\Releases\2.0.1\scripts

 

 

Relative path

A path starting with a single backslash ('\').

\custom\initial\data

 

\

Variable path

A path starting with a path variable.

 

A variable path represents an absolute path: the result of expanding the variable is an absolute path.

$$release\2.0.1\scripts

 

$$release

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See Also

Special folders

Path variables

Path placeholders