Facility Control

Two Questions:

1. I have a Javascript file written to copy a file from one location and overwrite a file in a different location. Action is performed when file is double clicked.

I get an exception message when I try to paste it directly into a Dashboard button.

"

function copy()
{
var myObject, newpath;
myObject = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
myObject.CopyFile ("\\Source Folder\\Source File.txt", "\\Destination Folder\\");
}

copy();

"

Is there a way to have a Dashboard button "run" the Javascript action?

2. Is there a way to utilize parameter data from dashboard to rewrite parts of the Javascript file to then choose different files to copy and overwrite?

Thanks!

Hi Cole.

This is failing because you are using a browser-based ActiveX mechanism to copy your files (it is using non-standard JavaScript). You an copy a file in ogScript but you will need to use the mechanisms available to its libraries.

Here is a general-purpose file copy function you can paste into an <api/> tag in a CustomPanel:

function copyFile(src, dst)
{
var inputFileSize = ogscript.getFileSize(src); //Get the size of the file
var input = null; //Create input/output reader/writer variables
var output = null;

try
{
input = ogscript.createFileInput(src); //Create the file reader
var bytes = input.readBytes(inputFileSize); //Read the file

output = ogscript.createFileOutput(dst, false); //Create the file writer
output.writeByteArray(bytes); //Write the file
}
catch (e)
{
ogscript.debug("EXCEPTION THROWN: " + e);
}

if (input != null) //Make sure the reader is closed
{
input.close();
}

if (output != null) //Make sure the writer is closed
{
output.close();
}
}

Here is a full panel that actually makes use of the function:

<abs contexttype="opengear" id="_top" style="">
<meta>
<params>
<param access="1" maxlength="0" name="Input File" oid="Input_File" type="STRING" value="" widget="file-picker"/>
<param access="1" maxlength="0" name="Output File" oid="Output_File" type="STRING" value="" widget="file-picker">
<config key="w.save">true</config>
</param>
</params>
<api>function copyFile(src, dst)
{
var inputFileSize = ogscript.getFileSize(src); //Get the size of the file
var input = null; //Create input/output reader/writer variables
var output = null;

try
{
input = ogscript.createFileInput(src); //Create the file reader
var bytes = input.readBytes(inputFileSize); //Read the file

output = ogscript.createFileOutput(dst, false); //Create the file writer
output.writeByteArray(bytes); //Write the file
}
catch (e)
{
ogscript.debug("EXCEPTION THROWN: " + e);
}

if (input != null) //Make sure the reader is closed
{
input.close();
}

if (output != null) //Make sure the writer is closed
{
output.close();
}
}</api>
</meta>
<param expand="true" height="37" left="43" oid="Input_File" top="34" width="269"/>
<param expand="true" height="39" left="43" oid="Output_File" showlabel="false" top="87" width="271"/>
<button buttontype="push" height="92" left="319" name="Copy" top="38" width="143">
<task tasktype="ogscript">/*! block id=1000,1001,1002 !*/
copyFile(params.getValue('Input_File', 0), params.getValue('Output_File', 0))
/*!!
&lt;block id="1000" type="function_copyFile" x="283" y="10" w="243" src="ID:1001" dst="ID:1002" /&gt;
&lt;block id="1001" type="param__top&amp;amp;Input File (Input_File)[0]" x="10" y="10" w="243" SET="" /&gt;
&lt;block id="1002" type="param__top&amp;amp;Output File (Output_File)[0]" x="10" y="72" w="243" SET="" /&gt;
!!*/
/*!!&lt;checksum&gt;10fcf917cf5160a2a1e605ad05095871&lt;/checksum&gt;!!*/</task>
</button>
</abs>

Thanks James!

This was a huge help and opens a lot of doors for us on our custom panels.

I was able to utilize values from other parameters to automatically build the source and destination paths, which makes our workflow a hundred times better.