Visual Studio Code User Individual Configuration for Project - visual-studio-code

Question

I have a project created with defined tasks, for other users to use in my institution.
But now one of my tasks needs a parameter that should be a user defined directory.
How can each user have a configuration file in their project that my tasks can read and get the directory they want the out put to go?
This is a example of my task :
{
"label": "Generate File",
"type": "shell",
"command": "cscript.exe",
"args": [
"//NoLogo",
"${workspaceFolder}/scripts/build.vbs",
"0",
"${output}",
],
"options": {
"cwd": "${workspaceFolder}"
},
The output should be a folder define by each of the users in a configuration or setting file they can put in their project.
Edit :
As Requested i tried to do this
inside my .vscode folder i created a file named settings.json
with this as content
{
"env": {
"dirLoc": "C:\\output\\"
}
}
and tried to use this variable in my tasks.json file
{
"label": "Generate File",
"type": "shell",
"command": "cscript.exe",
"args": [
"//NoLogo",
"${workspaceFolder}/scripts/build.vbs",
"0",
"${env:dirLoc}",
],
"options": {
"cwd": "${workspaceFolder}"
},
but still i did not get anything in the value, it came blank

Answer 1

You can use the extension Command Variable.
It has the command extension.commandvariable.file.content where you can read file content and use it in a variable in the task or launch.
The file can be plain text, key-value, json and yaml.