Active Scripting Enhancements
Most Harvest users are familiar with Active Scripting. Harvest ships with
one such script - The Package Distribution Report which is available
to all users. Using Active Scripting you can create reports in Word or Excel
and display them from within the workbench.
But what happens when you need to prompt the user for more information? The
facilities available in VBScript for dialog creation are negligible. You can
prompt for a single field but that's it. Suppose you want a more complex
data-entry screen to be displayed? Suppose you want the script to run a
server-side UDP? Or even run a job on an external system? How do you do that?
Trilogy allows you to do that. By using the
Trilogy Scripting Client
you can display and capture data entry from sophisticated
dialogs
that can include data entry fields, drop-down lists, radio buttons and
checkboxes. You can run jobs on remote servers - and capture the results
from these jobs - at any point in the script.
This is akin to "Super UDPs". You can combine the power of Active Scripting -
with its ability to determine context and create reports directly inside the
Workbench - with the power of running server-side scripts.
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