I ran into this limitation last week and never found a way around it.
It does indeed seem that variable substitution doesn't apply to the
file prefix field.
On 2/20/06, Bennett McElwee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It seems that variable substitution does not work in the Filename field
> of listeners. For example:
>
> 1. set up a User Defined Variable called outputpath with value
> "C:\output\"
> 2. create a Simple Data Writer
> 3. set the SDW's Filename field to ${outputpath}outfile.csv
>
> The output ends up being written not to C:\output\outfile.csv, but to a
> file called ${outputpath}outfile.csv inside Jmeter's bin directory.
>
> Does this mean that "A user-defined function can be written into any
> field of any test component" (from the user manual) does not apply to
> Filename fields?
>
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