I given command property as notepad.exe.but it is not working

Hi Suresh,

You need to give the path of .CMD or .BAT or .EXE file path in the mandatory i.e. command property of Shell activity.

Regards,

Bineesh

Thanks for imidiate reply. Can you please give me exaple of what should we give to run notepad from shell activity?

I am writing "c:\\windows\\notepad.exe" in Configuration -> command property, but its not working.

Please do needful.

Hi Suresh,

You cannot run notepad or any other interactive exes.

Try creating a batch file with following commands:

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 MD C:\TestFolder

Copy C:\*.txt C:\TestFolder

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And give the file path in command property of Shell activity.

Regards,

Bineesh

Does you mean that notepad.exe cannot be called from skelta.

In my workflow also I want to run an exe, I am not able to run it.

As far as batch files are concerened, I can run them.

Could you please suggest some method for running exe through Skelta.

Hi Vinay,

It is possible to run exes, which doesn’t need human interaction. E.g. you can have a exe which takes one numeric parameter and checks the given number is even number and returns true or false.

You need to configure the possible returns values in the Return value property. So that shell activity will have two output paths true or false.

Regards,

Bineesh

Running exe through workflow is one of the major task for us. If we are not able to run exe then its a major problem for us.

I request you to please provide me a sample workflow which runs an exe(Non-interative). By that example we can make ourflow also to run the exe.

Also, I am not very clear with interative and non-interative exes. We have many exes with us which needs to be run through workflow.

Thanks,

Vinay

Hi Vinay,

As a detailed discussion is required on this matter, I request you to contact Skelta support (support@skelta.com) for more info on this.

Regards,

Bineesh