This is a guest post from Revelwood’s Shane Bethea.
Did you know you can create a new path to an existing Windows folder without breaking the original path when working in IBM Planning Analytics and TM1? An example of this is when you have a TurboIntegrator (TI) process that writes log files to a path that is several folders deep, but you want to simplify the path.
Windows allows you to create something called a directory junction that points to the original path. This works similar to a shortcut, but Windows and Planning Analytics/TM1 treat it like a regular folder.
Let’s say I have a log folder within C:\Clients\Lightspeed\TM1Server\Logs and I want to create a directory junction directly under the C:\ drive which points to that path. This can be done by using the mklink command within a Command Prompt. The format of the command is:
mklink /J <Directory Junction Name> <Path to Reference> |
I can create a directory junction called LightspeedLogs that references the file path via the following command:
mklink /J LightspeedLogs “C:\Clients\Lightspeed\TM1Server\Logs” |
![Working with Windows Directory in IBM Planning Analytics](https://revelwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/windows-directory_sb_1.png)
The result is a directory junction called LightspeedLogs that is located directly under the C:\ drive. The junction points to the full path of the Logs folder.
![Working with Windows Directory in TM1](https://revelwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/windows-directory_sb_2.png)
Now your TI processes can write log files to C:\LightspeedLogs and they will be written to the same path as any other log files within C:\Clients\Lightspeed\TM1Server\Logs.
If you need to remove the directory junction, you can use the remove directory (rd) command below.
![Working with Windows Directory in IBM Planning Analytics and TM1](https://revelwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/windows-directory_sb_3.png)
IBM Planning Analytics is full of new features and functionality. Not sure where to start? Our team here at Revelwood can help. Contact us for more information at info@revelwood.com. And stay tuned for more Planning Analytics Tips & Tricks weekly in our Knowledge Center and in upcoming newsletters!
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