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I am using rvActionInsertFile and rvActionExport and want to set the initial directory for the open and save operations.

I attempt to set the initialdir property but I get a compile time error telling me that "property 'InitialDir' inaccessible here'

I am attempting to set these properties in the formcreate method.

Where and how do I set the initialdir property for both these actions?

Thanks in advance

How do you assign InitialDir property?
Both actions have this property, it is published and can be changed even in the Object Inspector.

As soon as you mentioned that I can change it in the Object Inspector, I figured out what I was doing wrong.

Thanks...

If I could, follow up with another question.

I set the initial directory with:

rvActionInsertFile1.initialdir := GetSpecialFolderPath(CSIDL_PERSONAL);

This is executed once in the formcreate method.

Also, GetSpecialFolderPath is a function I declare and seems to work fine for all my other savedialogs in my application.

My new problem is if I navigate away from the path set up as above, any subsequent time I reexecute the action, the dialog opens up in the last directory I was in, not the initial directory I have set. Even if I close the form and reopen, it still opens in the last directory, and even when I terminate the application and relaunch, it goes back to the last directory, rather than the initialdir? Nothing I do seems to reset the initial directory other than navigating to a new directory and open or export a document.

How do I ensure that every time this action is executed, it opens up in initialdir ?

OK seemed to have solved this one. I was setting the filename for the rvActionExport1. Saw from another post that if the filename was set, the initial directory was set differently.

I removed the part that set the file name, now my initial directories are persistent.