Get current Sub name for a VB-script - vbscript

I am developing VBscript for GUI testing. And I wonder if there is possibilites to get the current Sub name.
I have divied the GUI testing into different Sub and want to log the Sub name to the logg file to track what is run.
So this i that I want
Sub TestCase1
Log.Message(SubName)
' Rest of test
End Sub
By using this I don't have the sub name hardcoded as a text string

VBScript (unlike JScript) doesn't provide any means to get the current routine name.
What you need is to run your script routines as test items (you're using TestComplete, right?) — in this case you'll get a tree-like log with messages grouped by script routines.
You'll also be able to access the test items programmatically via the Project.TestItems object. For example, you'll be able to get the name of the current script routine that is run as a test item using the Project.TestItems.Current.ElementToBeRun.Caption property.

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How to get rid of prompt on quitting MS ACCESS

I am running a Sub procedure stored in an ACCESS database using VBScript. The procedure queries the database and exports/saves a CSV file.
My problem is that the script successfully opens the database, runs the procedure but then leaves ACCESS open because ACCESS opens a prompt asking "Are you sure that you want to leave ACCESS" (rather its equivalent in German). I want it to close without interaction.
The basic idea of this script is to run it via the Windows Task Scheduler. (Which does not work right now but that is another question.)
Here is the part of my VBScript dealing with the ACCESS database:
Dim objAccess
Set objAccess = createObject("Access.Application")
objAccess.OpenCurrentDataBase("C:\FiselTools\Allgemein\Scripte\Pellenc-CopyBelegarchiv3.accdb")
objAccess.Run "CopyBelegarchiv"
objAccess.Quit acQuitSaveAll
Set objAccess = Nothing
Using this script manually, it does open the database, export the file, finally executes the part following the code from above - so only closing ACCESS does not work and my guess is that it's not a problem with the script or the procedure but the ACCESS.
Erik A basically gave the right answer: there was some VBA code that is responsible for this prompt (see below). It was part of the primary form.
So in this case I found two possible solutions:
Do not display/show the form (which worked for me as I made a copy of the file dedicated for just this purpose).
If you need the form then you might need to delete the VBA code.
Private Sub Form_Unload(Cancel As Integer)
Dim Answer As Variant
Answer = MsgBox("Wollen Sie die Anwendung wirklich beenden?" & vbNewLine & vbNewLine & "Nicht gespeicherte Änderungen gehen dabei möglicherweise verloren", vbQuestion + vbYesNo + vbDefaultButton2)
If Answer = vbNo Then
Cancel = True
Else
DoCmd.Quit acQuitSaveNone
End If
End Sub
Since it is part of the Access class object of the form that is configured to be displayed on opening the ACCESS database and I do not need the form when I run the procedure via VBScript I simply changed the database to not display any form when the database is opened.
Some day I will remove any form, query, and any other object not needed from this special copy of the database that I don't need to run from VBScript.
Thanks!

How can we get the value of textbox in QTP?

I am executing the automated test scripts in UFT 12.5 I am new to UFT. Not very familiar with codes.There is an edit box wherein i have to type the value "S05292". Example:
Browser(Browsername").Page("Pagename").WebEdit("ctl00$ConBody$txtPDNumber").Set "S05292"
The problem is my script fails at this step and does not type the value. Can somebody provide me with a solution which is easy to understand. I tried the below two methods
Method (1)
a=Browser().page().webedit(ctl00$ConBody$txtPDNumber).getroproperty("value")
if a=="S05292" then
msgbox ("displayed message is S05292")
else
msgbox ("msg is not S05292")
end if
Method (2)
x = Browser("Browsername").Page("Pagename").Webedit("ctl00$ConBody$txtPDNumber").GetROProperty("value")
msgbox x
The error message that displays is
Cannot identify the object "ctl00$ConBody$txtPDNumber" (of class WebEdit).
Verify that this object's properties match an object currently displayed in your application.
Use the Object Spy to get the properties of that text box at run time and then make sure they match up to the properties of that text box in your object repository that you defined. Perhaps that don't match up or you didn't uniquely identify that text box.
If you don't want to use an object repository then you have to pass it a property at run time to uniquely identify it. Some thing like:
Browser().page().webedit("developer name:=PDNumber").
Instead of a .set you can do a .type to set/type the value into the text box

Creating a view and agent in multiple databases

The problem I am encountering is that some of the messages are not accessible by the user ID file, I would like to skip these files instead of the agent crashing out. The error message received is as follows:
Using the view approach if this happened I was able to delete the document temporarily and re-run the agent but if there is a way to skip documents it would be a great help.
Thanks for the help guys.
Ok I have amended the code to a point where I am almost comfortable with it.
Sub Initialize
Dim s As New notessession
Dim db As notesdatabase
Dim view As notesview
Dim doc As notesdocument
Dim nextdoc As notesdocument
Set db = s.currentdatabase
If view Is Nothing Then
Set view = db.CreateView("Encrypted",{Encrypt="1"})
End If
Set doc = view.getfirstdocument
On Error Goto ErrorHandler
While Not doc Is Nothing
nextDocument:
Set nextdoc = view.getnextdocument(doc)
'The below loop is mandatory to ensure that all $File entries are unecrypted
Forall i In doc.items
If i.isencrypted Then
i.isencrypted=False
End If
End Forall
'Must have at least 1 field encrypted in order to call Encrypt method
Dim temp As New NotesItem(doc,"tempjunk","temp")
temp.IsEncrypted=True
Call doc.encrypt
Call doc.save(True, False)
'This portion can now remove the fields relative to encrypting the
'single token encrypted field.
Call doc.removeitem("$Seal")
Call doc.removeitem("$SealData")
Call doc.removeitem("SecretEncryptionKeys")
Call doc.removeitem("Encrypt")
Call doc.removeItem("tempjunk")
Call doc.save(True, False)
Set doc = nextdoc
Wend
Exit Sub
ErrorHandler:
On Error Resume nextDocument
Exit Sub
End Sub
The error handling is not playing nice;
On Error Resume nextDocument is showing up as an error.
I have tried suppressing all of the error warnings which seems to attempt to strip the encryption but I think they body of the messages is being destroyed as a result.
It is no problem to create an agent in a container database and let that agent access documents in all "target" databases and modify them accordingly - No need to copy that agent to all databases.
Only restriction: If the databases are on another server, then on the server security tab of the target server you have to enter the server with the container database as trusted server.
AND: If your agent runs longer than the allowed maximum run time for agents on the server, then it will be killed prematurely.
There is no need to create views in the target databases, you can use NotesDatabase.Search() to get the corresponding documents in the databases...
You can create views by copying them from another database. Say you create a view "Encrypted" in your db with the agent.
Then add a piece of code to get a handle of this view as a NotesDocument:
Dim dbThis As NotesDatabase
Dim viewTemplate As NotesView
Dim docView As NotesDocument
Set dbThis = s.currentDatabase
Set viewTemplate = dbThis.getView("Encrypted")
Set docView = dbThis.Getdocumentbyunid(viewTemplate.Universalid)
In the agent loop, test if view Encrypted exists, if not copy the "view template":
Set view = db.getview("Encrypted")
If view Is Nothing Then
Call docView.Copytodatabase(db)
Set view = db.getview("Encrypted")
End If
Finally, if you insist, a similar procedure might be used to copy the agent to all databases, but for me the idea of running the agent in one db sounds better.
Edited: In the view of full disclosure - of course you can create a view (I guess that was the original question).
If view Is Nothing Then
Set view = db.Createview("Encrypted", {Encrypt="1"})
End If
Or do one-shot dbSearch suggested by Torsten, with a good re-mark of Richard - if you intend to run your code several times - say if encrypted documents might get created again or re-encrypted, rather go for the view.
My method is a bit old fashioned (pre-dates availability of createView) and works well if you need more than selection formula, so you can pre-build a complicated view for re-use.
Performance-wise: whatever method you will choose either creating view using createView or copying from other db or doing dbSearch there is going to be a certain slow-down while the view gets built or dbSearch executes. Karl-Henry's approach will avoid this search/view build, but will be relatively slow if there are not many encrypted documents.
Whichever method you choose - here is a small tip to boost performance. Make your loops like this to release memory as you go; for example, assuming Karl-Henry's approach:
Dim doc1 as NotesDocument
Set doc = col.GetFirstDocument()
Do Until doc Is Nothing
Set doc1 = col.GetNextDocument(doc)
formname = doc.GetItemValue("Form")(0)
If IsElement(exclude(formname))=False Then
Call RemoveEncryption(doc) '*** Your function to remove encryption
End If
' releasing memory when processing thousands of documents improves performance and avoids crashes
Delete doc
Set doc = doc1
Loop
Now again, as you are talking only about migration (so one shot) of 20+ databases, the speed or implementation details should not be that critical.
If you have to process all (or almost all) documents in each database, you can use db.AllDocuments. It is more efficient than using db.Search() with an #All formula.
If you want to exclude certain documents, perhaps based on the form name, I would build a list of forms to exclude, and then use IsElement to check each document being processed against that list.
Dim exclude List As Boolean
exclude("FormA")=True
exclude("FormB")=True
Set col = db.AllDocuments
Set doc = col.GetFirstDocument()
Do Until doc Is Nothing
formname = doc.GetItemValue("Form")(0)
If IsElement(exclude(formname))=False Then
Call RemoveEncryption(doc) '*** Your function to remove encryption
End If
Set doc = col.GetNextDocument(doc)
Loop
Something like that. By the way, you can create the list as any data type. I just choose Boolean as it is a small data type, and that it makes the code easier to read. The IsElement() function just check if the element exists, it does not use the value you set.
You would wrap the code above in a function and call it once per database.
Appended answer, based on additional info in original question:
That should not be hard, just add error handling to your code.
Before you start to loop throung the document:
On Error Goto errHandler
Before you get the next document in the loop:
nextDocument:
At the end of your code:
Exit Sub
errHandler:
Resume nextDocument
End Sub
Try that.

How do you do an include in applescript?

I have a bunch of code I want to to use in several different applescripts so I would like to put it into it's own applescript that I can reference from other applescripts. Basically I want to do an include. How is this done in applescript?
Here is the best way I have found to accomplish this. You can call a function on another script like so:
script a.scpt
set myScript to load script "b.scpt"
set foo to myScript's theTest()
script b.scpt
on theTest()
return true
end theTest
As you can see you can call functions within b.scpt from a.scpt by calling the function name myScript's theTest().
You can put all the handlers and scripts that you want to reference inside a Script Library (for example: my_math_lib.scpt and my_string_lib.scpt). Then, save this file in a Script Libraries folder on your computer.
Depending on how you want to define the availability of this library, you use a different folder:
Place the my_math_lib.scpt and my_string_lib.scpt files inside the /Library/Script Libraries folder to make them available for all users on the computer.
Place them in the ~/Library/Script Libraries folder to make them available for a specific user only.
You can then use all the handlers in those libraries as follows:
property math_lib : script "my_math_lib"
property string_lib : script "my_string_lib"
math_lib's do_this()
string_lib's do_that()

How do I access the names of VB6 modules from code?

I am currently maintaining some code, which is likely to be refactored soon. Before that happens, I want to make the standard error handling code, which is injected by an Add-In, more efficient and take up less space. One thing that annoys me is that every module has a constant called m_ksModuleName that is used to construct a big string, which is then rethrown from the error handler so we can trace the error stack. This is all template code, i.e., repetitive, but I could easily strip it down to a procedure call. Now, I have fixed the code so that you can pass the Me reference to the procedure - but you can't do that for the BAS modules. Nor can you access the project name (the part which would be passed as part of a ProgramID, for instance) - although you get given it when you raise an error yourself.
All these strings are contained in the EXE, DLL or OCX - believe me, I've used a debugger to find them. But how can I access these in code?
AFAIK there's no way to get the name of a BAS module in code. The usual solution is to use a module-level constant as in Mike's answer.
AFAIK the only way to get the ProgID (programmatic ID, Project Name in project properties dialog) is to raise an error in a BAS module, trap it, and read the Err.Source.
It's all quite a hassle, and that's why we don't usually bother including the module name or the ProgID in our standard error handlers. We "roll our own" call stack, with the names of the routines. That's always enough information to find out which modules are involved. Routines in BAS modules usually have unique names, right?
Something like this, and you can add this automatically with the free MZTools VB6 add-in.
Sub / Function whatever
On Error Goto Handler
do some stuff
Exit Sub / Function
Handler:
Err.Raise Err.Number, "(function_name)->" & Err.source, Err.Description
End Sub
Every top-level routine in a DLL or OCX has a similar error handler but also includes App.ExeName so we can tell when errors cross component boundaries.
I'm not sure of an easy way to programmatically get the name of the module that you are in. The usual solution is to set a variable at the top of each method to the name of the module, and then it is available to the error handler for use in logging:
'In MyModule.bas'
Public Sub Foo()
Const MODULE_NAME As String = "MyModule"
On Error GoTo ErrorHandler
' Code here '
Exit Sub
ErrorHandler:
LogError Err.Number, Err.Description, MODULE_NAME
End Sub
If you are using an add-in such as MZTools, you have it generate this boilerplate code for you.
As for getting the current component name, you can access this using App.EXEName (despite the name, this works for other project types such as DLL's). This value is pulled from the Project Name field in the project's properties (Project -> Properties) when running in the IDE, and from the name of the compiled binary file (minus the file extension) when running outside the IDE.

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