Looking for name of .xml files

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(imported topic written by hbkrules6991)

Hi All

I am looking for help to query for all xml files that would be under the following path

C:\Docs and Settings"Name of logged on user"\Local Settings\Applications\Pandion\

Sometimes there will be more than one.

Thanks!

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(imported comment written by Lee Wei)

Hi,

I am not sure if you meant “C:\Docs and Settings” literally, or if you are referring to the user home directory. Assuming the latter, here is a query that will return the folder for the current user:

value “Local Settings” of key “Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders” of current user keys (logged on users) of registry

On my computer, that would be C:\Documents and Settings\lee_wei\Local Settings.

With that info, we can proceed with finding the XML files as follows:

names of files whose (name of it ends with “.xml”) of folder ((it as string & “\Application\Pandion”) of value “Local Settings” of key “Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders” of current user keys (logged on users) of registry)

  • Note that this does not run using the Relevance Debugger because it does not have the BigFix Client context. You can download my BES Client API Tester for easy testing: http://forum.bigfix.com/viewtopic.php?id=2756. Or you can simply put this statement into the BES Console.
  • Secondly, note that I did not check for the existence of the folder we are querying.
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(imported comment written by hbkrules6991)

Thanks Lee…

my stupidty led us down the wrong path name and I am looking for a folder name, not an XML file…sorry… This is what it should be but it simply says error in the API test

names of folders of folder ((it as string & “\Pandion\Profiles”) of value “AppData” of key “HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders” of current user keys (logged on users) of registry)

Also I would like the if exists because not every user will have this installed.

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(imported comment written by Lee Wei)

Hi,

Assuming that this is the directory structure that you are after:

C:\Documents and Settings\lee_wei\Application Data\Pandion\Profiles

The relevance statement can be the following to return the folders within the directory:

names of folders of folder ((it as string & 
"\Pandion\Profiles") of value 
"AppData" of key 
"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders" of current user keys (logged on users) of registry)

If we were to add and if-then-else statement to check for the existence of the folder, it would be:

if (exists folder ((it as string & 
"\Pandion\Profiles") of value 
"AppData" of key 
"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders" of current user keys (logged on users) of registry)) then (names of folders of folder ((it as string & 
"\Pandion\Profiles") of value 
"AppData" of key 
"Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders" of current user keys (logged on users) of registry) ) 

else (
"Not applicable")
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(imported comment written by hbkrules6991)

perfect…exactly what i was looking for…thanks!