Source ici ! by Sean Donahue

I noticed some posts on the SoftGrid Forums lately that could be addressed with some useful scripting with the .OSD files for a SoftGrid package. Scripting within .OSD files is a very powerful feature and can be used to solve or create workarounds for a vast number of situations. This is an excerpt of some text that was created to give the basics of the scripting concept. I try to go into detail on the Whats and the Hows and I also put in several script examples at the end. These examples are actual scripts that have been used in the field. Along with the example is an explanation of what the script is doing. After reading this article however, try to look at just the script example and decipher for yourself what it is doing. A mini self quiz if you will.

Scripts written in almost any language can be passed from the OSD file of a Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization enabled application to a client that has the necessary interpreter in place. Organizations may have preexisting scripts written in Visual Basic, Perl, .bat files, .cmd files, etc. that are required for their applications to run effectively. By following the basic rules of scripting in an OSD file those existing scripts can be leveraged here as well.

The following questions on “When”, “Where” and “How” a script runs need to be answered before the script can be placed inside the OSD file.

All scripts must be placed between the tags within the OSD files. The Sequence Engineer can choose to either refer to an existing by its file name or can enter the exact syntax of the commands in the script section.