need help for external task to execute iwsubmit to a submit file to staging

Hi !
I have a problem about execute iwsubmit in my perl program regarding to submit a file to staging. When I execute to do this in DOS mode
iwsubmit -w -u default/main/Information/WORKAREA/Admin/includes/press.html 'press submitted'
It seem to be work well.
But when I try to coding perl program to execute this task, It did not do anything, the specified file is not go to staging at all, so I doubt that - Do I code the wrong syntax in the program ? I use Teamsite 6.7.1 with Windows 2003 Operating system. It is coded exactly like this in my Perl program
$submit= "$iwhome\\bin\\iwsubmit -w -u \\default\\main\\Information\\WORKAREA\\$waname[1]\\includes\\press.html 'press submitted' ";

Previously, I use Teamsite 6.1 with UNIX and the same Program coding like this
$submit=`/teamsite/iw-home/bin/iwsubmit -w -u main/Information/WORKAREA/$waname[1]/includes/press.html 'press submitted' `;
And it works well.
So I'm not sure that when I convert this line from under UNIX OS to Windows OS, are there anything need to change besides changing / to \\ and ` to "

Can anyone help me ? please.

Thanks
Tstg

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iwovGraduate

Have you tried to capture the output from your script and log it? That might indicate what is going on - if you have the right syntax, if the variables $waname[1] have the right values, etc.
The statement you posted -
$submit= "$iwhome\\bin\\iwsubmit -w -u \\default\\main\\Information\\WORKAREA\\$waname[1]\\includes\\press.html 'press submitted' ";
is not quite correct if your intent was to *execute* it as a command. You need to use ` or a system call if you want to execute something.

Who is the owner of your external task? Does that user have the permissions to submit in that area? If not that would be a problem. Remember, in 6.7.1 external tasks would run as ther owner of that task.

kaalraa

Hi !
I have a problem about execute iwsubmit in my perl program regarding to submit a file to staging. When I execute to do this in DOS mode
iwsubmit -w -u default/main/Information/WORKAREA/Admin/includes/press.html 'press submitted'
It seem to be work well.
But when I try to coding perl program to execute this task, It did not do anything, the specified file is not go to staging at all, so I doubt that - Do I code the wrong syntax in the program ? I use Teamsite 6.7.1 with Windows 2003 Operating system. It is coded exactly like this in my Perl program
$submit= "$iwhome\\bin\\iwsubmit -w -u \\default\\main\\Information\\WORKAREA\\$waname[1]\\includes\\press.html 'press submitted' ";

Previously, I use Teamsite 6.1 with UNIX and the same Program coding like this
$submit=`/teamsite/iw-home/bin/iwsubmit -w -u main/Information/WORKAREA/$waname[1]/includes/press.html 'press submitted' `;
And it works well.
So I'm not sure that when I convert this line from under UNIX OS to Windows OS, are there anything need to change besides changing / to \\ and ` to "

Can anyone help me ? please.

Thanks
Tstg

I could not find the system execute command in your snippet? Are you doing anywhere like system($submit);

Migrateduser

Thats the only param, Devnet user can assume.

I could not find the system execute command in your snippet? Are you doing anywhere like system($submit);

Adam Stoller

... It is coded exactly like this in my Perl program
$submit= "$iwhome\\bin\\iwsubmit -w -u \\default\\main\\Information\\WORKAREA\\$waname[1]\\includes\\press.html 'press submitted' ";

Previously, I use Teamsite 6.1 with UNIX and the same Program coding like this
$submit=`/teamsite/iw-home/bin/iwsubmit -w -u main/Information/WORKAREA/$waname[1]/includes/press.html 'press submitted' `;
And it works well.
So I'm not sure that when I convert this line from under UNIX OS to Windows OS, are there anything need to change besides changing / to \\ and ` to "

As has already been mentioned - your "previous" example shows use of back-ticks (

`...`

) whereas your present example shows use of double-quotes (

"..."

) the former executes, the latter does not.

Also - the vpath argument should always use forward slashes - generally the way to code this is:

...
$area   =~ tr|\\|/|; # make sure you use forward slashes for vpath
$iwhome =~ tr|\\|/|; # simplifies things in the long run (IMO)
...
my $submit_cmd = qq($iwhome/bin/iwsubmit -w -u $vpath_to_file "$comment");
my $results    = qx($submit_cmd 2>&1);
my $status     = $? >>8; # remove shell padding of return code
if ($status) {
    die "[$status]: $results"; # or some other error handling code
}
...

Note: for the error handling code you will probably need to check the actual error message and explicitly ignore errors of the sort that indicate that the file was not submitted because it is already the same as the version in staging.

Hope that helps.

kaalraa

Thats the only param, Devnet user can assume.

Rishi,
He has mentioned about the ` sign was used for 6.1. So want to be double sure, if in 6.7 th euser is using ` or system command.

tstg

hello,
Thank you everybody for your help.
I'm just kind of new with Teamsite and PERL Script.
Now, with all of your recommendation, I can solve the problem.
(at first,I didn't know that back-ticks (`...`) means execute command. Thinking it is the same as " ").
Thanksss again.
tstg