I'm running a PowerShell script from pentaho, but I encounter the following problem. When it is called, the script step gets as parameter the rows that are processed by the previous step. From the images should be more clear what is the problem.
This is the complete transformation.
This is how the steps are configured.
Here are the parameters of the transformation before the script step.
This is the result after the execution. The string after the ....shell.bat contains the names of the rows that were processed by the previous step. If I do no process any row this string is not present. The problem is that this string should not be passed as parameter to the powershell.exe command, the first parameter should be the path to the script file. In fact in the row below (the output) the command is correct.
The problem is that I looked all the options and controlled all the variables, and seem everything ok. I'm not able to run the command successfully because I cannot remove this passed parameter (which I don't pass, but pentaho pass it by itself).
It is possible that is a bug or something? Can anyone give me some indications on how to solve this. Thank you.
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hoping for some help. I've got a dialog box that I want to do a certain action and running into issues getting the user input as a variable in the script. Essentially I want the user to be able to copy down a row in excel (so, for example, copy 4 numbers down a line in row E). I want the user to be able to paste it into the powershell GUI I made, once pasted I want the button to use that user input and put it in to a script I have already made and execute using each of those numbers as a variable and to return the output of the script. I've got the script and button made i'm just not sure what cmdlet or functions I need to do in order to take the user input and place in the script as a variable. Any help is appreciated, thank you!!
I went through Microsoft Docs and tried to find a cmdlet but either I didn't understand it or it didn't seem to work.
I am trying to run a powershell script with uipath. I have found two approaches to run it;
Read the script as a text and pass to Invoke Powershell activity
Use Run powershell script activity from Script Activities package
Now I need to pass arguments to the powershell script from uipath. Some have mentioned about formatting the string with parameters and invoking the script.
But, rather than that, think we can directly pass parameters from UiPath.
In Run Powershell script, it has Parameters as input
In Invoke Powershell, it has Parameters under Input section and PowershellVariables under Misc
I have been searching for a while. But still I am unable to figure out how to pass parameters using above activities.
I am trying to send outlook mails using powershell. Still in the process of learning how to work with it. Plz help…
EDIT
Found solution for one approach. Added it as an answer.
Found an answer from this link. Out of the two approaches, it provides a solution to pass the parameters using Invoke Power Shell activity.
Read the .ps1/.txt file containing the script, with Read Text File activity
Call the Invoke Power Shell activity by passing file content as CommandText and parameters in the Parameter collection.
But, it would be great, if I can get to know how to pass parameters using Run power shell script activity.
Attempting to write a Wget to get and save Vanguard pricing data. So far I have 2 statements that both work correctly from the Command Line when I paste the string. When I save the string as a bat file one works and the other gives an unexpected result.
The string that works correctly in both places is:
Wget64 --output-document=C:\Users\Default\downloads\VVA_Daily_Portfolio-%DATE:~-4%-%DATE:~4,2%-%DATE:~7,2%.html "https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/annuities/variable"
The string that only works in the Command Line and not as a bat file is:
Wget64 --output-document=C:\Users\Default\downloads\VVA_Fund64_History-%DATE:~-4%-%DATE:~4,2%-%DATE:~7,2%.html "https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/tools/pricehistorysearch?radio=1&results=get&FundType=VVAP&FundIntExt=INT&FundId=0064&fundName=0064&fundValue=0064&radiobutton2=1&beginDate=03%2F01%2F2017&endDate=12%2F31%2F2017&year=#res"
Can someone help me write the script so that the expected result is achieved. I suspect that the Vanguard website can tell the difference between a Command Line vs bat file query, or that there is something inherently different between the two methods of execution.
ANy assistance is appreciated. Dan
The cmd command parser behaves differently in command line and batch files. In this case, the main problem is the variable expansion. In command line when a variable does not contain a value (it is undefined), the variable read operation is not removed, but inside batch files the read operation is removed.
That means that something like echo(%thisDoesNotExist% will output (under the assumption the variable does not exist) %thisDoesNotExist% in command line and nothing in batch file.
What relation has this with your problem?
If we split your wget in parts you have
Wget64
--output-document="C:\Us ... y-%DATE:~-4%-%DATE:~4,2%-%DATE:~7,2%.html"
^........^ ^.........^ ^.........^
"https://pe ... h?radio=1& ... &beginDate=03%2F01%2F2017&endDate=12%2F31%2F2017&year=#res"
^....^ ^....^
You can see where the parser tries to resolve variables, correctly in the output case and incorrectly (from the purpouse of the command point of view) in the URL.
You need to escape (by doubling them) the percent signs that are not part of a variable read operation, ex. ... beginDate=03%%2F01%%2F2017&...
Objective:
I'm trying to use a program called Texmod.exe to start another program (exe) with certain parameters.
Background:
Texmod is program that opens up another exe and extracts/replaces textures that are pulled up in the second program while it is running. I'm trying to start the second exe with the parameters: -AlwaysFocus -ControllerOffset=1 -SaveDataId=2. Starting the second exe with shortcuts/.bat that have these parameters in a command line DOES work. However, I would like to do this in conjunction with Texmod.
Complications:
I'm using Texmod v0.9 b which doesn't support starting an exe with command line parameters. Newer versions, such as the open source reboot known as uMod, does support but it doesn't replace textures as well and crashes often compared to the original version.
Texmod.exe must start the second exe directly. Texmod can't select a shortcut to start the exe. I've tried making Texmod start another exe/.bat that then starts the second desired exe with parameters but this causes Texmod not to function.
Methods I have thought about but not sure if they work or even possible:
Somehow forcing all processes started by Texmod.exe to start with certain parameters
Somehow force the desired exe to always start with certain parameters regardless of start method (via Texmod, shortcuts, .bat, etc)
Add parameters to the process started by the desired exe after it is already running
Obviously I'm open to any ideas. Is what I'm asking even possible? Sorry if it seems unclear or I sound irrational; my knowledge on this is limited.
Edit: #Toby Speight I'm not sure what you mean by an example of the code I'm having trouble with as I'm just wondering if it's possible to perform the scenario I described. This is where I got the Texmod program from (it's the oldest release texmod.zip - Original TexMod 0.9 beta). I've searched the internet for possible solutions but I've found very few so some of the methods I've tried are:
Used Texmod.exe to start a desktop shortcut with target: "directory to exe" -AlwaysFocus -ControllerOffset=1 -SaveDataId=2. The result was Texmod couldn't use the shortcut and just opened the exe without the parameters.
Used Texmod to start an exe named caller.exe which started the exe I desired using the method described here. In command.txt, described by the instructions, I put ""name of exe.exe" -AlwaysFocus -ControllerOffset=1 -SaveDataId=2." The result was the exe started with the parameters but Texmod failed to modify the textures because it was modifying textures pulled up by caller.exe instead.
Used Texmod to open a .bat file with the lines: ""name of exe.exe" -AlwaysFocus -ControllerOffset=1 -SaveDataId=2." The result was the same as attempt described in #2.
Edit2: I also stumbled on this page where someone else claims they managed to achieve what sounds like the objective I desire. However, I do not know enough about code to understand it. If someone could look over this to see if it would work or see if they can modify it to fit the arguments that I desire.
You can use windows registry to force Windows run another app when specific .exe is called. Let me show an example: i'm trying to use TexMod with Remember Me.
Required setup:
Create a copy of game .exe, place it near original with different name, eg RememberMe_copy.exe
Go to windows registry location HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options
create new key named as original .exe, in my case it's RememberMe.exe. Registry key looks like a folder.
In this key, create new string value named Debugger with full path to copy of .exe with required commandline args. For example: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Remember Me\Binaries\Win32\RememberMe_copy.exe" -ReadPoolSizeFromIni. Note the path to .exe is quoted, commandline arguments are not. String value has type REG_SZ.
Now when you try to run anything called RememberMe.exe, Windows will instead run the RememberMe_copy.exe with specified parameters (and something else but we don't care). This feature is left in Windows for debugging purposes.
Finally, open TexMod, select RememberMe.exe. It will think it's running original file, but instead Windows will silently run another file with another parameters. As there is nothing else in between, TexMod is happy.
Why can't we use single file? Well, Windows will run original .exe instead of original .exe, then instead of it will run original .exe... causing infinite loop.
I have the following parameter defined in Team City:
I want to pass this parameter into a powershell script I have (that will update the xml file with the version number).
But this inserts the actual text %version% into the script (No substitution is made for the actual value of the parameter.)
However, I know my script is working because if I hardcode the values like this then it works:
Is there a way to get %version% to convert to the actual value when when used as a PowerShell script argument?
If you put the parameter in quotes, "%version%", and change the script execution mode to Execute ps1 script with "-File" argument then this should resolve and inject correctly
e.g.
Hope this helps
You need Environment Variables (env.), it's work to me
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