How to pass parameters to VBS scripts in bginfo custom fields

Question

0.00/5 (No votes)

See more:

Is there a way to pass parameters to a VBS script used for a custom field within bginfo?

What I have tried:

NOTE: The way to retrieve them with WScript.Arguments.Item(0) doesn't work, because WScript is not defined/supported within bginfo/vbs engine.

Posted 2-Nov-23 3:41am

ImfeldC (Switzerland)

Updated 3-Nov-23 4:41am

Deeksha Shenoy

v2

Add a Solution

1 solution

Add a Solution

Add your solution here

Treat my content as plain text, not as HTML

Preview 0

…

Existing Members

Sign in to your account

...or Join us

Download, Vote, Comment, Publish.

Your Email
Password
Forgot your password?

Your Email
This email is in use. Do you need your password?
Optional Password

I have read and agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
Please subscribe me to the CodeProject newsletters

When answering a question please:

Read the question carefully.
Understand that English isn't everyone's first language so be lenient of bad spelling and grammar.
If a question is poorly phrased then either ask for clarification, ignore it, or edit the question and fix the problem. Insults are not welcome.
Don't tell someone to read the manual. Chances are they have and don't get it. Provide an answer or move on to the next question.

Let's work to help developers, not make them feel stupid.

This content, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Dave Kreskowiak · Accepted Answer · 2023-11-02T04:07:00

Solution 1

It looks like you asked this in the Microsoft forums two years ago.

BgInfo doesn't use the WScript. It hosts the scripting engine itself. As far as I can tell, BgInfo doesn't support passing command line parameters to the script. Frankly, I don't see a reason you would for what the tool does. Scripts for this tool should be entirely self-contained.

You can get around this though. You can create an environment variable(s) with the data you want to pass and pickup those value of those variables in the script by creating a WScript.Shell object and calling its ExpandEnvironmentStrings method.

Posted 2-Nov-23 4:07am

Dave Kreskowiak

Comments

ImfeldC (Switzerland) 2-Nov-23 11:03am

Yes, I asked the same question two years ago in Microsoft forum and didn't get an answer. In this forum I got an answer within 15' .... Wouw! :-)

I would like to use the same script to retrieve several different custom values (approx. 10-15 values). The retrieval process is for all values the same, as they are retrieved from same website/API. The decision what to retrieve would be done with this parameter.
Workaround is, to create one main script and create for each custom value an own separate script, which calls the main method (loaded from main script). Creating 10-15 scripts is cumbersome, it would be much easier to just pass a parameter to the script, when setting-up custom value.

Anyhow, many thanks for your answer.