Want to use Formativ to update my signature – anything special required?

[dgerisch]

One of my co-workers suggested a little project, and I like the idea, so I’m going to try it out. However, I’m having trouble at step 1.

The idea is that I’d like to update my GroupWise signature with a line that reports how many spam messages were blocked yesterday. I get an email avery morning that gives me the number, all I need now is to pluck that number out of the message, and write it into my signature line.

Here is what I have so far:

Sub Main(Client, GWEvent)



dim Sig1

dim Sig2

dim Sig3



dim QtySpamBlocked



dim SignatureTextString



QtySpamBlocked = "bazillion"



Sig1 = "David Gerisch, Systems Technician"

Sig2 = "A.C.S. / Tulare County Information Technology"

Sig3 = "Yesterday, we blocked " & QtySpamBlocked & " spam messages."



SignatureTextString = Sig1 & HRT & Sig2 & HRT & Sig3



Call GroupWise.PrefSignature( incPrompt, true, true, SignatureTextString )



End Sub

It runs without error, but it doesn’t update the signature line.

Can someone tell me what I am missing?

Thanks!

Topic

[Support 3]

Use ThrowToken to execute a token. See the Formativ Language guide for more information. ThrowToken uses the native GroupWise Token Commander to execute the given token. See the URL for the Token API: http://developer.novell.com/documentation/gwtoken/index.html?gwtokens/data/hj8ej8g5.html

I have noticed the default GroupWise signature (Tools – Options – Environment – Signature) need to be enabled for this token to work. See below the sample code.

  
 dim iReturnValue
 dim iSyntax

 QtySpamBlocked = 3
 Sig1 = "David Gerisch, Systems Technician"
 Sig2 = "A.C.S. / Tulare County Information Technology"
 Sig3 = "Yesterday, we blocked " & QtySpamBlocked & " spam messages."

 SignatureTextString = Sig1 & HRT & Sig2 & HRT & Sig3

 iSyntax = "PrefSignature(1;0;0;""" & SignatureTextString & """;"""";"""";"""")"
 msgbox groupwise.throwtoken(iSyntax, iReturnValue)

Hope this help. Look forward to hear from you.

Regards,
Advansys Support

[This message was edited by Support 3 on February 13, 2007 at 03:27 PM.]

[dgerisch]

Thank you for the info – it helped me figure out why my original program wasn’t working.

As it turns out, both programs work if I delete my existing signature first. If I do not, then no update happens.

The token throwing version is nice in that the msgbox tells me the return value is true; the code did what it was supposed to. The error must be further down the line, what with running into an existing signature, and not just wholesale replacing it.

[dgerisch]

One other question:

the string I’m sending it is getting stripped of linefeed / carriage return characters. What is the correct way to send those through?

Thanks!

[Support 3]

The following Visual Basic constants copied from the Visual Basic Scripting Guide. See the guide for more information.

quote:

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Microsoft® Visual Basic® Scripting Edition
String Constants Language Reference
Version 2

Since these constants are built into VBScript, you don’t have to define them before using them. Use them anywhere in your code to represent the values shown for each.

Constant – Value – Description
vbCr – Chr(13) – Carriage return.
vbCrLf – Chr(13) & Chr(10) – Carriage return–linefeed combination.
vbFormFeed – Chr(12) – Form feed; not useful in Microsoft Windows.
vbLf – Chr(10) – Line feed.
vbNewLine – Chr(13) & Chr(10) or Chr(10) – Platform-specific newline character; whatever is appropriate for the platform.
vbNullChar – Chr(0) – Character having the value 0.
vbNullString – String having value 0 – Not the same as a zero-length string (“”); used for calling external procedures.
vbTab – Chr(9) – Horizontal tab.
vbVerticalTab – Chr(11) – Vertical tab; not useful in Microsoft Windows.

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Regards,
Advansys Support

[dgerisch]

Thank you very much.

Do you know if the inability to replace an existing signature is “working as designed” ?

[Support 3]

3rd party developer unable to edit the default GroupWise signature using the Object/Token API. Documentaion in the SOAP API says, you can edit signature.

GroupWise Web Service (SOAP): http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/GroupWise_Web_Service_(SOAP)

Regards,
Advansys Support

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