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Overview

Large A complex upgrade project will may have many upgrade tasks (VBPs) and many upgrade features.  The ScriptRules feature provides a means for organizing translation script rules into files based on upgrade features and then applying the content of those files to the upgrade tasks conditionally. 

Script rules are placed in a ScriptRule.xml file one or more ScriptRule files which defines collections of script commands that may be conditionally merged with the translation script template to create different actual translation scripts. The ScriptRule syntax supports script parameters and conditional commands. This makes it possible, in one template, to describe a variety of common and task-specific upgrade commands.   

ScriptRule files are also helpful for API-based upgrades tasks. These tasks use an EXE an custom migration executable implemented using gmslAPI rather than a XML script templategmBasic. The gmslAPI includes the ScriptRule class to assist with preparing a ScriptRule file content for use by the gmslAPI services.

Info

You may add a sample ScriptRules file from the Settings form Configuration/Template Files. 

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Sample ScriptRules File

Most of the documentation for using ScriptRules is maintained in the sample ScriptRules file distributed with the product and listed below.  To you this file, add it to your user folder, modify it with the rules you need, and reference it from your main script template.

ScriptRule File Syntax
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   types of Command elements are currently supported:

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                merged transcript, typically Select, Reference, and Registry commandsintegrate ScriptRule file content with other gmAPI services.

ScriptRule File Syntax

   A ScriptRule file is an XML document that may contain one or more ScriptRule 
   elements.  These elements and their attributes are described below.

<ScriptRule id="name" Condition="condition" > elements

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   in your translation script to activate the rule.

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   ForEach elements are children of the ScriptRule. They allow repeating 
   Command elements for each file in the source project folder that meet 
   certain criteria.  This element may also be used to copy files
   from the source project folder to the .NET project folder.
   
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   according to its attributes:  Condition="var1.var2=='val1.val2'" to simulate locical AND
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                element will only be merged for upgrade tasks having SrcName equal
                to the string "ScanToolUI".
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<ForEach>, <Iterator>, and <Each> elements

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    %FileInfo.FullName%: full path
   %FileInfo.DirectoryName%: parent folder name

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   script collection.
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the command collection to addthe corresponding .NET project folder with directory Thestructure attributeListpreserved.
specifies variables that mayThe befolders referencedand elsewherefiles are copied prior to inthe thetranslation ScriptRuleprocess.
Variable references are case
insensitive.   Within the <Each> Forblock, example the followingnotation ScriptRule tag: 

   <ScriptRule id="IncludeResources" Criteria="*.wav" /> 

   requests loading the command collection named IncludeResouces and 
   creates a ScriptRule variable named %Criteria% with value = "*.wav"
   
Specifying the ScriptRule file

   By default, the ScriptRule XML is located in a file called ScriptRule.xml 
   and is typically kept in the workspace\usr folder.
   
   If desired, you may specify an alternate location using a FileName attribute%FileInfo.member% may be used to refer 
   to information about the files found in the source folder:

   %FileInfo.RelativeName%: path relative to the source project root
   %FileInfo.Name%: file name
   %FileInfo.FullName%: full path
   %FileInfo.DirectoryName%: parent folder name

Activating a ScriptRule

   Adding a <ScriptRule> tag to the script requests the merging of the named
   script collection.

   <ScriptRule id="name" attributeList /> 

   The id attribute specifies the command collection to add.

   The attributeList specifies variables that may be referenced elsewhere 
   in the ScriptRule. Variable references are case insensitive. 

   For example the following ScriptRule tag: 

   <ScriptRule id="IncludeResources" Criteria="*.wav" /> 

   requests loading the command collection named IncludeResouces and 
   creates a ScriptRule variable named %Criteria% with value = "*.wav"
   
Specifying the ScriptRule file

   By default, the ScriptRule XML is located in a file called ScriptRule.xml 
   and is typically kept in the workspace\usr folder.
   
   If desired, you may specify an alternate location using a FileName attribute
   for example:
   
   <ScriptRule id="ADODBUpgrade" FileName="..\usr\ADODB.Rules.xml" /> 
   
   The above loads the ScriptRule file named ..\usr\ADODB.Rules.xml 
   (relative to the workspace log folder).  And then merges in the 
   ScriptRule element having id="ADODBUpgrade":
   
   <ScriptRule id="ADODBUpgrade" Condition="%TaskTag%=='upg'" >
   ... rules to perform ADODBUpgrade for tasks having TaskTag=='upg' ...
   </ScriptRule>

Line Pragma

   The token %LN% placed in a ScriptRule file will expand to the form
   
   @ScriptRulePath@LineNumber@ in actual script.  The expanded form may then
   be parsed by gmStudio to direct the text editor to that line of code.
   
   For example:
   
   <Replace status="active" name="%LN% Add Reference to dlls: gmRTL.Core and gmRTL.WPF" lang="vbp">
   becomes
   <Replace status="active" name="=@C:\gmTestBed\WPFScanTool\proj_csh\usr\ScriptRules_csh.xml@105@ Add Reference to dlls: gmRTL.Core and gmRTL.WPF" lang="vbp">
   
   This data will be placed into the Translation Log.  If the log is viewed as a Grid in gmStudio, double clicking the grid line
   will take you to the original line in the Script Rule file.
   
   
See Also:

   For more information, see the "Eval" VB6 Upgrade sample here 
   https://portal.greatmigrations.com/display/GMG/Samples
-->
<ScriptRules>
<!-- Here is a sample of the ScriptRule syntax -->
<ScriptRule id="BasicRulesStandardUpgrade">
   <Option>
      <!-- directories for configuration files -->

      <select Target="%UserFolder%" />
      <Select Local="%IdfFromCodeFolder%" />
      <Select System="%IdfFromIdlFolder%" />

      <!-- translation options -->

      <Select Progress="1" />
      <Select DevEnv="%DevEnv%" />
      <Select Dialect="%Dialect%" />
      <Select BuildFile="local" />

      <!-- directories for deployment and external assemblies -->

      <select VirtualRoot="%VirtualRoot%" />
      <Select DeployLocation="%NetProjFolder%" />
      <Select Library="%RuntimeFolder%" />

      <!-- custom processing commands -->

   </Option>
   <Compile Condition="%SrcName%=~'Project1|Project2'" >
      <!-- pre-edits -->
      <!-- compile refactors commands-->
   </Compile>
   <PreAnalyse>
      <!-- pre-analyse refactor commands -->
   </PreAnalyse>
   <PostAnalyse>
      <!-- post-analyse refactors commands-->
   </PostAnalyse>
   <Author Condition="%SrcName%=~'Project1|Project2'" >
      <!-- post-edits -->          
   </Author>
   <PostAuthor>
      <!-- post-author refactors commands-->
   </PostAuthor>
</ScriptRule>
</ScriptRules>
</ScriptRules>