External Process Variable Aborted

[RRD_Jeff · Accepted solution]

That still did not work if the PDF being processed had a space anywere in the name.

I did get it to work with This process.

Bat File: 
copy %1 %2

Paramiters:
"$FFwfJob.preflightReportUri$" "E:\Xerox\Core\00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000\Data\Save Destinations\CSR Review\PreFlight_$FFwfDoc.inputFileName$"

Thanks for all your help.

[StefanT-Xerox]

This works for me:

bat:

copy %1 "E:\Xerox\FreeFlow\Core\00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000\Data\Save Destinations\CSR Review\"%2"_report.pdf"

Parameters:

"$FFwfJob.preflightReportUri$" "$FFwfDoc.inputFileName$"

or

"$FFwfJob.preflightReportUri$" "$FFwfJob.jobName$"

[RRD_Jeff]

OK I have it kind of working now.

.bat = 

copy %1 "E:\Xerox\Core\00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000\Data\Save Destinations\CSR Review\%2"

Paramiters ["$FFwfJob.preflightReportUri$" Preflight.pdf]

Paramiter %2 will only work as static text for some reason when I put in $FFwfDoc.inputFileName$ it gets passed as Xerox. I eve put the same code in a watermark on the file and it works there just not when passed to the .bat

[RRD_Jeff]

OK I checked the Log and as you can see from below the file name is being truncated some how

Log: 

E:\Xerox\Core\00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000\Data\Scripts>copy "E:\Xerox\Core\00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000\Platform\Spool\10c7e4f9-a464-48d1-9e64-9676afd3b542\REPORT_" "E:\Xerox\Core\00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000\Data\Save Destinations\CSR Review\Copy\Test Workflow PDF_New_3.pdf"
The system cannot find the file specified.

It should look like this:

E:\Xerox\Core\00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000\Data\Scripts>copy "E:\Xerox\Core\00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000\Platform\Spool\10c7e4f9-a464-48d1-9e64-9676afd3b542\REPORT_
_63718833571816.pdf" "E:\Xerox\Core\00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000\Data\Save Destinations\CSR Review\Copy\Test Workflow PDF_New_3.pdf"

Becasue ther is a space in the file name generated by FF Core it is getting truncated.

File Name: REPORT_ _63718833571816.pdf

[StefanT-Xerox]

Try this:

Where copy_pf_report.bat contains:

copy %1 C:\out\%2"_report.pdf"

This will save the preflight report to the folder C:\out with the job name+ _report.pdf.

To try to figure out what is happening when a script is run you can check:

stderr.log
stdout.log

in C:\Xerox\FreeFlow\Core\00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000\Data\Scripts\External Process Status

That will give you more hints of what is going on than just the "Job # is in aborted state" message.

[RRD_Jeff]

I have been working on a process that copies the PreFlight PDF to the same folder my Completed PDFs go when ther is a failure.

I have tried every thing but whenever there is a variable it fails.

I tred with a bat file with no variable and if works but as soon as I intorduce a variable I get an "Job # is in aborted state" message.

This .bat works

[copy "E:\Xerox\Core\00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000\Data\Save Destinations\CSR Review\Test Workflow PDF_New.pdf" "E:\Xerox\Core\00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000\Data\Save Destinations\CSR Review\Copy\Test Workflow PDF_New_2.pdf"]

But this .bat failes.

[copy %1 "E:\Xerox\Core\00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000\Data\Save Destinations\CSR Review\Copy\Test Workflow PDF_New_2.pdf"] The paramiter that is passes to the .bat file is [$FFwfJob.preflightReportUri$] and for arguments sake = E:\Xerox\Core\00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000\Platform\Spool\05d126e7-43fc-44e1-a60a-72d5bfa13f17\REPORT_ _63718833571816.pdf

I also tried this 

[copy "%1" "E:\Xerox\Core\00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000\Data\Save Destinations\CSR Review\Copy\Test Workflow PDF_New_2.pdf"]