EPLAN News 2.8

Extensions at the Path Variables

By means of path variables you can, for example, specify defined values for drive, directory and / or file names. The path variables have been extended for Version 2.8. Path variables for the current date, the current time, for project properties and for environment variables are available.

Benefit:

As a result of these extensions, the path variables of the Select path variable dialog are spread across the three new tabs Program variables, Project variables and Environment variables.

In the Program variables tab most of the previously existing EPLAN path variables as well as the two new path variables $(LOCALDATE) and $(LOCALTIME) are listed. Through these new path variables you can output the values for the current date (in the format YYYYMMDD) and the values for the current time (in the format HHMMSS).

In the Project variables tab the new path variables for the project properties $(PROJPROP_<ID>) are displayed together with the already existing path variables for the project ($(DOC), $(IMG), $(P), $(PROJECTNAME), $(PROJECTPATH)). This tab only exists where the usage of project-specific path variables makes sense.

The environment variables $(ENVVAR_<Variable_name>) from the Control Panel are listed in the Environment variables tab as further path variables.