{"id":2791,"date":"2015-03-31T20:28:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T20:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/?p=2791"},"modified":"2015-03-31T20:28:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T20:28:42","slug":"custom-variables-with-backslashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/custom-variables-with-backslashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Custom Variables with Backslashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Double backslashes (\\\\) are needed in Variables to permit substitution and other string-based\u00a0activities on the contents.<\/p>\n<p>When a \u201cfile name\u201d is entered, it is stored in the system dependent\u00a0manner under which it was chosen. Windows will use a forward slash (\/) in\u00a0most places the same as a backslash, however, the Windows exception is with universal\u00a0naming convention (UNC) file names. The two backslashes before the server identity\u00a0are required. Where doubling is required, four backslashes (\\\\\\\\) would be entered. While\u00a0using a windows volume ID would avoid the server UNC reference, care must be taken\u00a0to ensure the volume is available to eFORMz running as a service. Many times these\u00a0volumes are attached as part of a logon script in Windows and only available from a\u00a0desktop session.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you want to create a custom variable that contains backslashes, example:<\/p>\n<p>\\AK\\xxxxx.pdf<\/p>\n<p>you need to set the variable as:<\/p>\n<p>\\\\AK\\\\xxxx.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Double backslashes (\\\\) are needed in Variables to permit substitution and other string-based\u00a0activities on the contents. When a \u201cfile name\u201d is entered, it is stored in the system dependent\u00a0manner under which it was chosen. Windows will use a forward slash (\/) in\u00a0most places the same as a backslash, however, the Windows exception is with universal\u00a0naming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2793,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions\/2793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}