Dynamic users customized Working directory at the time of application launch

[lakshmi21]

Hi Everyone,

I am trying to make working directory at the launch time as dynamic. I want the working directory to show something like “/workflows//workflows” to customize for each user in my production environment. /workflows should be the default workspace.

1. I have changed default workspace location in config.ini file which is osgi.instance.area.default=@user.home/workflows but it is of no use.
2. I also added a line in knime.ini file under -vmargs which is also not working Dknime.workspace=/workflows/${user.name}/workflows
3. I even tried to run an external script to get the working directory as personalised for users which is as below
   script.sh

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#!/bin/bash
username=$(whoami)
workspace=“/workflows/$username/workflows” # Customize the workspace directory structure here
mkdir -p “$workspace” # Create the user-specific directory if it doesn’t exist
cd “$workspace” # Change to the user-specific directory
/apps/Knime/knime_4.7.2/knime # Replace with the actual path to knime executable

So, I tried many things to get the customized working directories for my users but nothing seems to work. How much I edit these files I am getting the working directory as
/home/username/knime_workspace
Can anyone know how to achieve this?

[k10shetty1]

Hello lakshmi21,

Welcome to the community!

Apologies for the inconvenience caused. Based on my understanding, the behaviour you are experiencing is a standard feature of Eclipse. Workspaces cannot be shared among users, so each user needs to have their own workspace. I hope you will find more information in the following links:

eclipse help
micro focus document

Best,
Keerthan

[lakshmi21]

Thank you, Keerthan. Those documents are really helpful.