Creating a IE Pop-up to run Once-a-day only

[zantlan]

Hi there, I need some help please to get my pop-up script to run once-a-day

At present I am using this simple call script to open IE and point to a Sharepoint location to present a file to users when they log in. The problem is that with each login the IE pop-up appears, and my team is looking for some form of intelligence to work out that its already "run-once" that day and not re-run the script...

Script details:

#include <IE.au3>
$oIE = _IECreate ("https://sharepoint_server/popup1.png")
WinSetState ( "title", "text", @SW_MAXIMIZE )
Exit

Oh, and I can't get the IE window to maximize, any idea why? Any help will be greatly appreciated!!

[JohnQSmith]

my team is looking for some form of intelligence to work out that its already "run-once" that day and not re-run the script...

When it runs, have it store a variable with the date either in the registry or in a config file. Then before running, have it check the value of that variable and if it's the current date, don't run.

[BrewManNH]

You could do it the simple way, with an INI file that has the last run date stored in it, and have your script read from that INI file to see if today's date <> last run date. Also, instead of using _IECreate, you could use ShellExecute("https://sharepoint_server/popup1.png").

[zantlan]

Thank you both, excellent suggestions... What commands would I use to achive that?

[zantlan]

Also, instead of using _IECreate, you could use ShellExecute("https://sharepoint_server/popup1.png").

I actually have that in production atm...

[BrewManNH]

Iniread/IniWrite or RegRead/RegWrite depending on the path you want to take to accomplish this.

[zantlan]

Iniread/IniWrite or RegRead/RegWrite depending on the path you want to take to accomplish this.

Ok so something like this:

IniWrite("C:Tempmyfile.ini", "section1", "key", "date")

My next question would then be - how do we do the "IniRead" to check dates? (need some spoon feeding i'm afraid as my scripting skills are toliet)

[BrewManNH]

You can get the current date using the _NowDate() function, and compare it to the stored date. You can tailor the ini filename to the user's login name (@UserName macro), so that it will check for who ever logs in, rather than only running it once per computer per day. Change the "test.ini" to something like IniRead(@UserName & ".ini", "RunDate", "LastRunDate", "N/A"), you might want to include the path to the ini file in there as well.

#include <Date.au3>
If IniRead("test.ini", "RunDate", "LastRunDate", "N/A") <> _NowDate() Then ; checks to see if the stored date matches today's date
    MsgBox(64, "No match", "The stored date: " & IniRead("test.ini", "RunDate", "LastRunDate", "") & " doesn't match todays date: " & _NowDate()) ; if it doesn't match, displays this msgbox (demo only)
    IniWrite("test.ini", "RunDate", "LastRunDate", _NowDate()) ; because it hasn't been run today, we store today's date in the INI file
    ; place your code here
Else
    MsgBox(64, "Match", "The stored date: " & IniRead("test.ini", "RunDate", "LastRunDate", "") & " matches today's date: " & _NowDate()) ; we've already run this today
    Exit ; so we exit the script without doing anything more.
EndIf

[zantlan]

Thank you BrewManNH!! (I would "Like" this comment above but it appears i've "reached your quota of positive votes for the day"

This resolved my query, many thanks for the quick response too!!

[BrewManNH]

I'm glad that I could help, if you have any questions, please ask.