Setting environment variables

You can set project-wide defaults for general environment variables or ones specific to parallel jobs from this page.

• You can also specify new variables. All of these are then available to be used in jobs. They are added to jobs in the same way as job parameters.
• To define environment variables, click the Environment... button. The Environment Variables dialog box appears.
  • Choose the type of environment variable for which you want to set a default from the tree in the left pane. A list of available variables appears in the right pane. You can select a new value for the variable in the Value column.
  • To define a new variable, choose User Defined. A dialog box appears asking you to specify the name of the variable and a default value. You can also set a type for a user defined variable. Choose between string (the default) and encrypted. If you choose encrypted, a further dialog box requests you enter the encrypted string value and then confirm it.
  • Click Export to export environment variables from a project to a file. See Exporting environment variables.
  • Click Import to import environment variables from a file. See Importing environment variables.
  • Click Set to Default to set the selected environment variable to its installed default value.
  • Click All to Default to set the environment variables currently visible to their installed default values.
  • Click Variable Help to get help information about the selected variable.
  When you change the setting for an environment variable, all the jobs in the project are affected. If you want to change an environment variable for a particular job, leave the Value column empty, and specify the setting of the environment variable via a job parameter.