Pathname of client folder of site "BESSupport" does not work

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(imported topic written by andrewp91)

I am trying to write a task that will stop a running process. The command I am trying is:

wait pathname of client folder of site “BESSupport” & “\taskkill.exe /f /im pddm.exe”

When I run this in the Fixlet Debugger I get “Unknown action command”. I tried putting:

pathname of client folder of site “BESSupport”

in my relevance debugger and I get “Singular expression refers to nonexistent object”. I have seen lots of posts about people using this to stop running processes so I believe it should work in my environment. I checked and we are subscribed to the BES Support site and I have tried other sites as well and get the same error message in the relevance debugger. I have tried the command on multiple computers with the same error.

What am I doing wrong?

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(imported comment written by jessewk)

In an action script, anything you want evaluated as relevance needs to be wrapped in curly braces. So this will work:

wait "{pathname of client folder of site “BESSupport” & “\taskkill.exe}” /f /im pddm.exe

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(imported comment written by andrewp91)

I tried that command and it did not work. In the client log it says “Command failed (Relevance substitution failed)”. I tested the relevance statement:

pathname of client folder of site “BESSupport”

and I get “Singular expression refers to nonexistent object”. I tried a different site “Actionsite” and got the same response. It seems as if it cannot pull up its list of sites. I am able to push out fixlets and other tasks but this relevance does not work.

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(imported comment written by jessewk)

Hi andrew,

The relevance query requires client context so it will not work in the Relevance Debugger. I’m not sure if it works in the Fixlet Debugger.

I missed a quote in the command I gave you. This is the correct one:

wait “{pathname of client folder of site “BESSupport” & “\taskkill.exe”}” /f /im pddm.exe

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(imported comment written by andrewp91)

I tried the expression:

pathname of client folder of site “BESSupport” & “\taskkill.exe”

in the Fixlet Debugger and get “Singular expression refers to nonexistent object.” If I double click on the taskkill.exe I get a window that opens and then closes so I know the executable works. What object is it not able to find?

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(imported comment written by jessewk)

I don’t think that expression will work in the Fixlet Debugger b/c it requires client context. Basically, the debugger has no idea which sites exist. If you evaluate the expression as part of a running action, it should work. To test it out, you can write the result to a file and look at the result:

appendfile {pathname of client folder of site “BESSupport” & “\taskkill.exe”}

After the action runs, look in your operator site if you’re a non master operator or the action site if you’re a master operator, and you’ll find a file called __appendfile. The result of the expression will be in there.

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(imported comment written by andrewp91)

I tried that comamnd and the resulting command looked correct. I then ran the command in an action script and it did kill the application that was running. I just assumed that I could test the script without havign to actually running it but now I know that the command works.

Thanks a lot!