Running a VB exe from a workflow

Sue99

I have written a perl script that runs a very simple VB exe using the system command. I have then created a workflow with an external task to run this script. When I run the .ipl on the command line, the VB program runs and produces the correct output. However, when I run the .ipl within the workflow there is no output from the VB program. I know the workflow has completed OK as I output a log file to monitor progress. Any ideas why the workflow does not work?

rollo

This is probably a long shot, but... can the VB exe be executed by everyone? (specifically SYSTEM, who as I understand it will run any program in an external task).

If yes, is it a path problem? To be honest, what I'd probably do (given that it's a simple VB) is recode it in Perl.