What are environment preferences?

You can define a preference to retrieve its value from an environment variable in the operating system. If you want to pass multiple values from the environment to the preference, you must configure the following: Set the preference's Multiple setting to multiple. Use the appropriate separator in the environment variable. The environment variable is read from the operating system on which the tcserver process is running. Windows Semicolon — For example, MyEnvPref=Value1;Value1;Value3 Linux Comma — For example, MyEnvPref=Value1,Value1,Value3 The environment variable is only read by the tcserver process when the value is first requested, so any changes made to the environment variable after that will not be reflected in the Teamcenter preference until after the next time the tcserver process is started. Remember, the environment variable is read from the environment where the tcserver process is running, which is not necessarily the environment where the client is running.