Maxl - read file dynamically Batch

Question

Hi,
I'm on a client currently running Essbase 11.1.2 on Windows. I'm new to the scripting part. I am trying to write a maxl script and batch script to move data to several systems in the environment. I would like to have maxl load the files load dynamically since the files name may change from time to time. Need some guidance on how to do this.
Thanks,
Matt

Answer 1

Hi Matt,
Both Maxl and Batch files (.cmd .bat) accept input variables. In Maxl, if you launch the script myscript.msh:
essmsh myscript.msh myDataFile.txt myRulesFile.rul
then inside the Maxl script, you can capture those two file name passed in above (myDataFile.txt myRulesFile.rul) by using the $1 and $2 variables. in this case $1 would be assigned the value myDataFile.txt, and $2 would be myRulesFile.rul
This is known as "passing in command line arguments".
You can do the same thing with batch files use %1 %2 ...
Passing the changing name files from your batch file is a little trickier, you will need to read the files from the file system to get the new names and pass those to the MaxlScript:
CD C:\Folder\where\my\files\are
for /f %%G in ('dir /s /b /ad') do call :runMaxl %%G
goto :eof
:runMaxl
essmsh myscript.msh %1
pause
Robb Salzmann