Display Message when relevance substitutuion fails

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I want to display a message from the action script when relevance substitution fails. For instance: continue if {not exists file whose (name of it is “pending.xml” as string) of folder “C:\Windows\winsxs”}
if this fails then display a message like “Please reboot this system”

This would especially come in handy deploying software after the monthly MS patching cycle. (We don’t force reboots. :frowning: ) This would prompt the user then to reboot, and then the install would start when the system checks back in.
(I have a property that reboots systems if they have a pending xml file and no one is logged on, but I would rather include the message within an action.)

Has anyone done this tweak?

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You can do something like this by making a reboot requirement and then having an action that runs requesting a reboot if there is a “pending restart”

You can do the following

if {not exists file whose (name of it is "pending.xml" as string) of folder "C:\Windows\winsxs"}  
    action requires restart "pending.xml"
endif

See https://developer.bigfix.com/action-script/reference/flow-control/action-requires-restart.html

If I’m not understanding the issue here remember the relevance substitution will just replace this to be an “if true” in the success case. If you are trying to trap real error cases you can write the relevance to capture different events and thus give the results you are expecting even in an error case.

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