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Example

define(&x,integer,strtoint(@(7,4,8)))

if(&x < 1000)

execpage('PAGE1')

elseif()

if(&x > 1000)

%This is equivalent to execpage('PAGE3')

@PAGE3

elseif()

execpage('PAGE2')

endif()

ExecScriptFile (function)

Allows PlanetPress Design documents to execute the content of an external script file. The document waits until the script has

completed before resuming its own execution.

Note: This function does not support printer centric mode; results are undefined.

Syntax

ExecScriptFile(filename: string, parameters: string, scriptlanguage: integer) integer

Arguments

filename

Fully qualified path and name of the script to call and execute.

parameters

User-defined string value allowing a document to pass additional information to the script, such as data selections, PlanetPress

Talk variables, etc..

scriptlanguage

The programming language in which the script is written. The valid values are:

0 Auto-detect based on file extension: VBScript (.vbs) | JavaScript (.js) | Perl (.pl) | Python (.py)

1 VBScript

2 JavaScript

3 Perl

4 Python

Return value

Successful execution of the external script file will return 0 by default, although this value may be set by users through the

"Script (system object)" (page 249) system variable. Note that some negative values are internally used to indicate different

types of failure, always using negative values, which means conflicts may happen when users set the Script.ReturnValue var-

iable with an existing negative value. The proper practice is thus to return only positive values.

Here are the existing negative values: