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SYSTEM INFORMATION
Category: Create / Generate
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
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.
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.