Ideas on how to pass parms to QTP from QUICK

[fernando.olmos at hpa.com.au]

Thanks for the suggestion Glenn, but that is what I would have preferred
to do. We don't have such a record, otherwise I would have gone that way
already.
 
I need a solution that does NOT involve using record passing via an
actual record/data file. However, you did give me an idea, and that is
to create environment variables from QUICK (using RUN COMMAND "define
var = 'value'") and then interrogating the variable using GLOBAL TEMP in
the QTP. Messy, but may suffice.
 
Thanks
-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn at Baxterit.com.au [mailto:Glenn at Baxterit.com.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 9:56 AM
To: Fernando Olmos
Cc: powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
Subject: RE: Ideas on how to pass parms to QTP from QUICK



Hi Fernando, 

It's an old problem isn't it?

What about placing the screen temps etc in a USER_VARIABLES record
written to from the screen - if you have one, and linking to that/those
record/s from the Qtp run.

Sincerely

Glenn Baxter

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From: fernando.olmos at hpa.com.au [mailto:fernando.olmos at hpa.com.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, 21 September 2005 9:25 AM
To: powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
Subject: Ideas on how to pass parms to QTP from QUICK

 

Anyone have a good programming model on how to call a QTP program from
within QUICK, but passing to it parameters (temporaries) from the
calling QUICK program?

The preferred method I used to get around this, was by using a "special"
PH dictionary record that would write text to a DAT file. I would then
rename the DAT file to BAT or COM (in VMS land) to run the batch script.
Effectively the program was building a batch script on-line and
submitting it into the queue to run.

ie: 
        Record: PASSTHRUREC 
        Schema: TEXTLINE        x(255) 

In quick I would have a program that would simply let TEXTLINE = "do
script command" and then I would use the RUN COMMAND to call the
appropriate batch submit command (in UNIX it's "at", in VMS it's
SUBMIT).

Unfortunately, in my new role, management won't allow me to go this way
(we don't have the PH Architect license !!) so I need to look for
alternatives. I was hoping I could use the run command with some sort of
parm passing via the QTP command, but there is no parms that allow you
to pass a value into the called QTP program.

I hope this is not too confusing. 

Thanks in advance. 

Fernando Olmos 
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