this is totaly a hack but you could pipe the action to an output file and then read that file in for results couldnt you?
----- Original Message ----- From: "MJPinckard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Witango" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 6:26 PM Subject: Witango-Talk: can't get results of external action > I've been banging my head against this for hours, and hope someone can help. > > I'm calling a shell script using an external action. I cannot seem to > get the output of the shell script to return to Witango so it can be > evaluated in the resultset. Server debugging always shows the following: > *[External Action]* *[1112]* check_for_mask > *[Query]* *[1113]* /TOU/masks/checkMask2.sh; Parameters: > tariffID=430.txt; > *[External Action]* *[1113]* Forking process > *[External Action]* *[1125]* Waiting on the child process > *[External Action]* *[1226]* Error: No child processes > *[External Action]* *[1226]* Waiting done > *[ActionResults]* *[1231]* > *[External Action]* *[1234]* Complete > *[Changed Vars]* *[1234]* request$maskPresent=; > > > I know that the "430.txt" file is present and readable by Witango, and > when I test it on the command line the script returns the name of the > file. Permissions are set correctly for Witango to execute the script. I > have several other scripts running (although they don't need to return > results), and this script is set up identically to the functional ones, > so I'm reasonably certain it is being called. The variable maskPresent > is being set to @@resultset. > > Here is the actual script. > > #! /bin/sh > echo `ls | grep $tariffID` > > How can I get the results to come back to Witango? Server is OS X > (10.3.4) Server running Witango 5.0.1.062 Chimera (Mac OS X) > > thanks for any help you can give. > > Maggie Pinckard > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
