[ic] ic jobs and scratch value from usertag - getting closer

Stefan Hornburg racke at linuxia.de
Thu Dec 25 12:31:40 EST 2003


On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 12:37:12 -0500
Aaron Hazelton <aaronmail at hazenet.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 11:05:39 -0500, Aaron Hazelton <aaronmail at hazenet.net> 
> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 19:31:28 -0500, Aaron Hazelton 
> > <aaronmail at hazenet.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> IC 4.9.8
> >>
> >> I have driven myself crazy with this one, and am at a loss. I have
> >> an IC cron job set up, and the [scratch email_body] value is either
> >> not being set or displayed in this context.  code below for further
> >> details. the exact same code produces the expected result when using
> >> the 'test ITL snippet' page... and there are no errors.  I must be
> >> missing something about how this type of value and the 'jobs' work
> >> together or something.
> >>
> [snip code]
> >>
> >> TIA!
> >>
> >
> > I have now also taken this block of code, which is tested and
> > works as expected, and instead of enclosing it into a [tmp] value
> > i have logged it to a text file, creating a new file at the
> > beginning so that it is blank, then appending each subsequent entry
> > to it if it exists, and then [include]'ing that file into the email
> > that gets sent out.
> >
> > Again, this method also works as a test on the ITL page, and yet
> > will not log anything to the file (although it is created) from
> > the job.
> >
> [snip other stuff, below still applies]
> >
> > dumbfounded.
> >
> 
> ok, i have done more testing and finally narrowed down the problem
> although i still cannot get it to work and it was the last thing
> i expected.
> 
> my usertag that is being called test dates and compares them and
> then based on how they compare with each other and today, it may
> or may not set $Scratch->{bill_it} = 1;  now, when i test the
> user tag (an example is below) it works just as expected, but in
> the context of the job, the scratch value never shows up.  what
> i do not know is whether or not the usertag is even being executed
> or what.  Any ideas on how i can test this further to determine
> what is causing this strangeness?
> 
> EXAMPLE ON A TEST PAGE:
> [loop list="20031123 20031124"]
> [billing-check start_date="[loop-code]"
>                 last_billed=""
>                 type="hosting"]
> test scratch bill_it: [scratch bill_it]
> [/loop]
> 
> RESULTS FROM PAGE:
> test scratch bill_it: 1 <- should be 1
> test scratch bill_it:   <- should be blank
> 
> RESULTS RUNNING SAME THING FROM JOB:
> test scratch bill_it:   <- is blank
> test scratch bill_it:
> 
> any ideas? thanks!

Can you please give more information about the UserTag ?
Is it global or local (catalog) ?
How do you set the scratch variable in the UserTag ?

Bye
	Racke

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