Setting up and using environment variables in IntelliJ Idea

Question

I set up an environment variable  Under IDE Settings - gt  Path Variables        APP HOME    path to app home     One of my tests is failing however with         System out println  APP HOME      APP HOME      With         APP HOME  null     It does not look like that env variable is being read  What am i missing

User · Answer

It is possible to reference an intellij 'Path Variable' in an intellij 'Run Configuration'.

In 'Path Variables' create a variable for example ANALYTICS_VERSION.

In a 'Run Configuration' under 'Environment Variables' add for example the following:

ANALYTICS_LOAD_LOCATION=$MAVEN_REPOSITORY$\com\my\company\analytics\$ANALYTICS_VERSION$\bin

To answer the original question you would need to add an APP_HOME environment variable to your run configuration which references the path variable:

APP_HOME=$APP_HOME$

User · Answer

In addition to the above answer and restarting the IDE didn t do  try restarting  Jetbrains Toolbox  if you use it  this did it for me

User · Answer

Path Variables dialog has nothing to do with the environment variables   Environment variables can be specified in your OS or customized in the Run configuration

[intellij-idea] Setting up and using environment variables in IntelliJ Idea

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