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BrianSmart
Occasional Contributor
4 years ago

Count the number of instances

Hey,   I'm trying to find a way to count the number of instances of an application without throwing an error. Part of my check is to launch a second instance, and verify that the application detect...
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  • ebarbera's avatar
    ebarbera
    4 years ago

    BrianSmart - 

     

    For this I would suggest the following. 

    Create a second object in the NameMapping which is mapped using the index number:

    In your test build an If...Then statement:

    The statements themselves can be customized and of course if you did not want to log a warning you do not have too - just used that as an example. 

     

    Let me know if this helps or if you have other questions. 


    Emma

     

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BrianSmart
Occasional Contributor

I want to validate it internally without turning off "stop on error" and without running external scripts.

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ebarbera
Staff
4 years ago

BrianSmart - 

 

For this I would suggest the following. 

Create a second object in the NameMapping which is mapped using the index number:

In your test build an If...Then statement:

The statements themselves can be customized and of course if you did not want to log a warning you do not have too - just used that as an example. 

 

Let me know if this helps or if you have other questions. 


Emma