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BuildIT 2.0 Build 121 Released

A new build is available that fixes a couple of bugs and adds some new features:

• Fixed bug so you can get version information from different language EXEs
• Modified so it will run a DOS Command task tool process from given search paths if a path is not given, also removed validation that exe exists so this can be done
• Added condition operators to specify how to compare the condition values (has equals, not equal, contains, not contain and is empty)
• Added ability to have macros in command line log paths
• Added current build file to log so its clearer what file the log is reporting on

Previous builds; Build 120:

• Added ability to specify a ‘condition’ on whether a task runs or not. This is a simple case insensitive comparison of the value of a specific macro. The task only runs if the value specified is exactly the same as the actual macro value
• Added a new system macro “SCRIPTSTART” which contains the string value of the date and time the script started in format “21 July 2007 13:21″ … this can be passed into a VBS CDate or a JS Date object constructor to create a script usable date
• Fixed bug with wrong value being saved into macro when running a DOS Command Tool Task
• Added ability to specify if the “Send Email” task should send as Plain Text or HTML, and also can specify the Importance of the email
• Added some more script functions for new email facilites:
  ## Sends a plain or HTML email to an already connected SMTP server with given importance. Importance can be: 0=Low; 1=Normal; 2=High
  BOOL SendSMTPEmailExtra( String strTo, String strFrom, String strSubject, String strMessage, BOOL bSendAsHtml, short nImportance )

  ## Sends a plain or HTML email with attachment to an already connected SMTP server with given importance. Importance can be: 0=Low; 1=Normal; 2=High
BOOL SendSMTPEmailExtraAttachment( String strTo, String strFrom, String strSubject, String strMessage, BOOL bSendAsHtml, short nImportance, String strAttachmentPath )

Build 119:

• Added ability to save return value of DOS Command Tool Task into a given macro for later use
• Modified command line version so it exits with appropriate exit code depending on if it finished successfully or not
• Modified output of file management tasks when operating on files due to date specifics
• Added some exception handling on scripts to try and catch failures due to security issues
• Added some more script functions:
  ## Returns whether given task is enabled or not. If task name doesn't exist, it returns FALSE
  BOOL IsTaskNameEnabled( String strTaskName )

  ## Returns whether given task has executed yet or not (current task would return false)
  BOOL HasTaskNameRun( String strTaskName )

  ## Returns whether given task has succeeded to execute or not (disabled tasks or current task would return false)
  BOOL HasTaskNameSucceeded( String strTaskName )

  ## Returns whether given task has failed to execute or not (disabled tasks or current task would return false)
  BOOL HasTaskNameFailed( String strTaskName )

  ## Returns the given named version field of a file with version information
  String GetFileVersionString( String strFilePath, String strVersionStringName )

  ## Returns an MD5 hashed string from given string
  String ConvertToMD5( String strUnhashedIn )

  ## Returns an SHA256 hashed string from given string
String ConvertToSHA256( String strUnhashedIn )

Build 118:

• Fixed same CPU bug in MSDev/VB Tasks

Build 117:

• Fixed major bug eating up all CPU when running a DOS command
• Fixed issue with double-clicking tickbox would edit task instead of not
• Fixed issue with file management dialogs would not size even though they had sizing grippers
• Added ability to use DEL and INSERT keys on files list in Manage Files task
• Fixed crash bug with incorrectly enabled edit/delete buttons when creating a Manage File tasks
• Fixed bug where encoded characters in XML File parameter values where not converted. This would mean that apostrophes in task names and other places would load back in as '