Provide a value for a Fixlet

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(imported topic written by TJessee)

I have a fix let that I am trying to write, and only want to create 1 to use for mulitple cases. What I want is for it to prompt me for the value I want written. I have tried searching the forums and even the fixlets in TEM, but I am not able to find anything that will work. Any help would be greatly.

Here is the relevance

(name of operating system = “Win2003” OR (name of it = “Win2008” or (name of it = “WinVista” and product type of it != nt workstation product type)) of operating system OR name of operating system = “Win2008R2”) AND (NOT exists value “Managed By” of keys “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Software\TSYS\Servers” of native registry)

and action script

action uses wow64 redirection false

delete __createfile
delete wizardedit.reg

createfile until @end_create_reg_file
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Software\TSYS\Servers]
"Managed By"="OP DTOPS"
@end_create_reg_file

move __createfile wizardedit.reg
waithidden regedit /s "wizardedit.reg"

Any help is greatly appreciated

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(imported comment written by BrianPGreen)

I think you can get what you want with the “action parameter query” command. I think that would make your actionscript something like:

action uses wow64 redirection false
action parameter query “ManagedBy” with description “Enter ManagedBy value”

delete __createfile
delete wizardedit.reg

createfile until @end_create_reg_file
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Software\TSYS\Servers]
“Managed By”="{parameter “ManagedBy”}"
@end_create_reg_file

move __createfile wizardedit.reg
waithidden regedit /s “wizardedit.reg”

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(imported comment written by TJessee)

That worked perfectly. Showed it to the people requesting it and they said it looked great, but for sanitys sake the would like a drop down box with pre populated entries for them to choose from, then take the highlighted selection and use that value. Is that even possible in a fixlet?

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(imported comment written by BrianPGreen)

It’s not possible to show a dropdown box like that in a fixlet. I think for more complicated solutions like that you might have to start using a different tool to show the UI that you want, and then use the REST API or COM API to actually take an action from the fixlet with the right value.

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(imported comment written by TJessee)

I kind of figured that was going to be the case. Thank you for the knowledge and time.

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(imported comment written by Tim.Rice)

I have no idea if it still works, but have you looked at …

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/topic?id=77777777-0000-0000-0000-000014748953

It’s a bit of a hack, but it might point you in the right direction.

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(imported comment written by TJessee)

Brian,

I have found the down side of supporting both Windows and Unix. The above code worked perfectly for Windows registry, but when trying to accomplish something similar on a Unix box I am not able to get it to accept the input params. I have tried 2 differnent methods, but I am not having any luck.

action parameter query “group” with description “Please enter the Unix group responsible for managing the Unix Server. Your choices are OPDTUNIX or UKSVRUNIX.”

echo MANAGED_BY:{parameter “group” of action as string} >> /var/opt/BESClient/tsys_custom/server.properties

and

appendfile #!/bin/bash
action parameter query "group" with description "Please enter the Unix group responsible for managing the Unix Server.  
Your choices are OPDTUNIX or UKSVRUNIX."

appendfile MANAGED_BY:{parameter "group" of action as string} >> /var/opt/BESClient/tsys_custom/server.properties

Again, any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.