Hello,
I usually go through odd things upgrading Automate. I have this client that was happily running Automate 10 but he upgraded to the latest V11.0.6 some days ago and everything stopped working.
Digging around the code he has for most of the stuff he runs, I found out that one VBScript function (for what I could find so far) is no longer implemented.
The bellow code stopped working

stFileNameAux = ExtractFileName(stFileName)

The function ExtractFileName doesn't seem to be available in Automate anymore.
Is this true or is there something missing on his configuration?
Are there other retired functions to be expected to be found?

Thanks a lot for your help.
Jay

Jayj,
As you might already know, some functions listed under 'Extended Functions' in our expression builder are not vbScript and are handled by us. I just tested and it seems like one can not use them through the BasicScript action, so somehow there is a disconnect, whereas they work everywhere else. I have entered this into our bug tracking system #24425 to be looked at.

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Hello Hamid,
Thanks for replying.
This seems to be an undocumented change that break things. It was working nicely on the previous version.
I'm advising my client to stick with V10 and have the scripts running smoothly but I think he is not keen to this possibility.
I appreciate your help filling this on you bug tracking system.
Regards,
Jay.

Hello Jay,
I further investigated this and first of all not all Extended Functions are failing. I did get the go ahead to fix this ASAP, but upon further looking into it, it is working. The issue is tricky in that if you try to run the script from the BasicScript Editor in AMTB, it fails (I think the Extended Functions are not getting loaded at this time), but if you save and run, the STEP runs fine, since the engine will know of Extended Functions! Load the following in the Editor, run, you get an error, then save to step and run, and it is working, so the Editor has issues. I am still looking into this, but the script 'should' run in a step. If you are still seeing something different from what i have explained, let me know and I will further look into that specific issue. I will need a simple working example to pinpoint the issue since from your explanation, this is what I have. Also this behavior was not intended and hence that is why there is no documentation.

Sub Main
Dim a As String
Dim x As String
a="C:\Temp\Hello.ext"
x = ExtractFileName(a)
MsgBox(x)
End Sub

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To almost close this thread, I did add the Extended Functions to the BasicScript editor for availability, HOWEVER, one can not test all of them since some functions are ONLY available during running of a task. e.g. GetAgentName, GetCurrentStep, etc and SHOULD NOT BE counted to be available in the Editor. From Editor it will throw a 'Not Implemented' Exception since it is not available.

Thanks for your time for reporting this. It should be available in next release.

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Hamid Noorbakhsh | Senior Software Engineer
AutoMate | A Division of HelpSystems
HelpSystems, LLC | T: +1.213.738.1700