[RESOLVED] Scheduled Task "Could Not Start"

[ooKmonkey]

Hi

Ive written some code that basically creates a scheduled task on a load of remote machines.

This is the code that im using

    Dim strTime As String
    Dim strDate() As String
    Dim vntWeek() As Variant
    Dim intCounter As Integer
    Dim intWeekCounter As Integer
    Dim strdyz As String
    strdyz = "M,T,W,TH,F,S,SU"
    vntWeek = Array("M", "T", "W", "TH", "F", "S", "SU")
    
    With udtAtInfo
        
        ' Change the format of the time
        strTime = Format("00:10", "hh:mm")
        
        ' Change the time to one used by the api
        .JobTime = (Hour(strTime) * 3600 + Minute(strTime) * 60) * 1000
        
        ' Set the Date parameters
        If Val(strdyz) > 0 Then
            
            ' Set the task to run on specific days of the month i.e. 9th & 22nd of the month
            strDate = Split(strdyz, ",")
            For intCounter = 0 To UBound(strDate)
                .DaysOfMonth = .DaysOfMonth + 2 ^ (strDate(intCounter) - 1)
            Next
        
        Else
            
            ' Set the task to run on sepecific days of the week i.e. Monday & Thursday
            strDate = Split(strdyz, ",")
            For intCounter = 0 To UBound(strDate)
                For intWeekCounter = 0 To UBound(vntWeek)
                    If UCase(strDate(intCounter)) = vntWeek(intWeekCounter) Then
                        .DaysOfWeek = .DaysOfWeek + 2 ^ intWeekCounter
                        Exit For
                    End If
                Next
            Next
        End If

        ' Set the interactive property
        'If Check1.Value = vbUnchecked Then
            .Flags = .Flags Or JOB_NONINTERACTIVE
        'End If
        
        ' Set to run periodically
        'If Option2.Value = True Then
            .Flags = .Flags Or JOB_RUN_PERIODICALLY
        'End If
        
        ' Set the command to run
        .Command = StrConv("MyApp.exe", vbUnicode)
    End With

now if I set it to run Notepad it all works fine but if I set it to open up a VB6 App Ive created it just comes up with "Could Not Start" in the schedule list? Now its finding the app as it is setting the Scheduled Items Icon to the Apps Icon but it just won't run!

Am I missing something really stupid on this one?

[si_the_geek]

It is rarely wise to specify a file name without also specifying the full path to it, because it is likely to fail in some way (even if it has worked before), and the likelihood of that happening depends on the circumstances.

This is one of the cases where leaving out the path virtually guarantees failure.

[ooKmonkey]

yeh the full path was there and it wasn't working but I think I may have figured it out.

I have moved the file to be run, to the root of C and it seems to work when I put the full file path in. I think the problem may have actually been that It was originally being run from a folder with spaces in the folder name and that is where the problem was.

im gonna look into it and see if that was the problem just to be sure.

[ooKmonkey]

OK Just tried it and it always errors when there is a space in the folder name.

Well that was annoying

[si_the_geek]

yeh the full path was there ...

It wasn't in your code above, which is all we have to go on.

OK Just tried it and it always errors when there is a space in the folder name.

If we'd seen the actual code we may have spotted that.

The simplest solution is to simply put the file+path name inside quotes, eg:

strApp = """C:\path with spaces\MyApp.exe"""

If that doesn't work, you will need to get the short version of the file name instead.