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====== SYSTEM INFORMATION ======
Category: Create / Generate\\

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=====Description=====
This action generates a single-row dataset of system information items such as:
  * Windows account name (of the current Windows process)
  * Windows identity (of the user that triggered the workflow)
  * Free RAM (in MB)
  * Current machine name
  * UTC offset
  * Temporary directory (of the current user)
  * Workflow run ID

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=====Use cases=====
This action can be used to:
  * generate documentation about users running workflows, the systems they were run on, and the times they were run.
  * branch a workflow based on the system and/or user running the workflow.
  * check that the current system has enough available RAM before running a known memory-intensive workflow.
  * preset a default target directory if no other directory is defined or available when the workflow runs.

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=====Action settings=====
^ Item  ^ Description  ^
|Windows account of the current Windows process|Lists the current process' Windows account name in the format of [SystemName]\[User Name].|
|Windows identity of the user that triggered the workflow|Lists the user's Windows identity name in the format of [SystemName]\[User Name].|
|Free RAM, MB|Lists the amount of available system memory (RAM), in megabytes.|
|Machine Name|Lists the name of the system defined in Windows.|
|UTC offset|Lists the difference in time between the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and the local system time.|
|Temporary directory|Lists the fully-qualified path to the user's temporary directory.  By default this is "C:\Users\[Profile name]\App data\Local\Temp".|
|Workflow run ID|When checked, a GUID that is the same for all modules or projects called/iterated during the current workflow run is returned.  The ID changes for each new workflow run.|

Note:  Each item selected from the list above creates a column in the dataset for that value.\\