Can a journal find a node or computer name?

[aluminum2]

At work we all have individual computer node names. I would like to write a journal that can read a node name and then based on that write somebodies initials. Given the node name I can do the rest. I am sure that there is a way to find it because in the log file 5th line down there is a record of it. now looking at the log file, if it is possible to get the varible in the "Information listing created by " on the second line, then that woudl be good too.

 

[cowski]

Try: Environment.UserName

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[aluminum2]

Yeah, that works. I found an example online on how to use it, but could not find anything in the nx.open api help file about system environment variables.

 

[markrief]

Here is a sample jounal to get the value of a system environment variable.
There may be an easier way - I'm not the expert, I got this from a friend.

Option Strict Off

Imports System
Imports NXOpen
Imports NXOpen.UF
Imports NXOpen.UI
Imports NXOpen.Utilities

Module startup

   Public s As Session = Session.GetSession()
   Public ufs As UFSession = UFSession.GetUFSession()
   Public lw As ListingWindow = s.ListingWindow

   Sub Main()

      Dim licenseString As String = ""

      ufs.UF.TranslateVariable("UGS_LICENSE_SERVER", licenseString)

      MsgBox("The current License Server is: " & licenseString, _
                                          MsgBoxStyle.Information)

   End Sub

   Public Function GetUnloadOption(ByVal dummy As String) As Integer

      Return Session.LibraryUnloadOption.Immediately

   End Function

End Module

Mark Rief
Product Manager
Siemens PLM