White space get removed from workflow argument

Hi All,

We have a strange problem occuring in our workflows(intermittently). When the workflow calls an external script with a parameter, the whitespace get removed(once out 10 i would say). We have checked the workflow builder and can clearly see the space and it works fine 90% of the time(same task).
When the problem happens, the workflow get stuck at that task(once you do the iwgetwfobj you can see the failed task has whit space stripped from the argument).

The command is "F:\iw-home\teamsite\script\runDeploy.ipl Media" and it works 90% of the time and when it fails "F:\iw-home\teamsite\script\runDeploy.iplMedia", the space between runDeploy.ipl and Media gets removed. This happens with other tasks as well. As I mentioned it happens only on some occassions and we are not sure. The task is of type externaltask.

TeamSite Version : TeamSite 7.3.1 on Windows Server 2008 R2.

Anybody ahs experienced this ?. Any pointers ?.

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Adam Stoller

The command is "F:\iw-home\teamsite\script\runDeploy.ipl Media"

Try:

"F:/iw-home/iw-perl/bin/iwperl.exe F:/iw-home/teamsite/script/runDeploy.ipl 'Media'"

'F:/iw-home/iw-perl/bin/iwperl.exe F:/iw-home/teamsite/script/runDeploy.ipl "Media"'

(I'm assuming F:\iw-home is your TeamSite home directory and that '\teamsite' is a custom directory)

On Windows, you should preface perl commands with the Perl engine.
You should also use forward slashes wherever possible as back-slashes (besides being non-portable as path separators) can sometimes get interpreted as the beginning of escape sequences and cause strange results.

I don't think quoting the argument is the issue, but I threw that in as something else to try.

Besides that - no idea why it works sometimes and fails sometimes.

Also - you mentioned:

We have checked the workflow builder

Please tell me that you are not using "WorkflowBuilder" (the predecessor to WorkflowModeler). If you are - I'd suggest throwing it away and start working on the WFT manually - WFB was an absolute piece of **** that had no business ever being released (IMO)