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Enterprise Architect => Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools => Topic started by: Sebastian Schmidt on May 29, 2013, 12:09:32 am

Title: Scripting.FileSystemObject
Post by: Sebastian Schmidt on May 29, 2013, 12:09:32 am

Hi all,

i'd like to write some information to a simple text file using JScript, copied from the CSV example:

//      fileName="C:\test.txt";
//      fileName="C:\\test.txtl";
//      fileName="C:/test.txt";
fileName="C://test.txt";
var fsObject = new ActiveXObject( "Scripting.FileSystemObject")
exportFile = fsObject.CreateTextFile( fileName, true );
exportFile.WriteLine( "--hello world --" );

I get either "Path not found" or "access denied" with these variants.

Hints on what I'm doing wrong? Exporting Artifacts to the file system from the EA GUI is not a problem.

Kind regards,
Sebastian

Title: Re: Scripting.FileSystemObject
Post by: VKN on May 29, 2013, 09:11:16 am

Did you check if you can create C:\test.txt manually?

Title: Re: Scripting.FileSystemObject
Post by: Geert Bellekens on May 29, 2013, 03:52:13 pm

Sebastian,

Since Windows 7 (or Vista maybe?) it is no longer allowed to create files on the C: root without elevated access.
You better create a directory to do your testing such as
C:\Test, so you can test the filename "C:\\Test\\test.txt" or variants thereof.

Geert

Title: Re: Scripting.FileSystemObject
Post by: Sebastian Schmidt on May 31, 2013, 08:48:57 pm

Thanks for your anwsers,

you were right, it was a rights management problem with the windows machine. I'm now able to write to the desktop, which is fine.

Kind regards,
Sebastian