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ThomasCasserly
Frequent Contributor
5 years ago

Using Task Scheduler to schedule test complete runs does not work with spaces in the task arguments

Hi. I was setting up a scheduled task using Windows task scheduler and following the steps on the Smartbear help page   https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/testing-with/running/scheduli...
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    ThomasCasserly
    5 years ago

    Ok,

    so today its running fine with the quotes and spaces in the filename path 🤔🤔🤔

    I had tried this 4 or 5 times on Monday, editing the path and folder name and to remove spaces and quote (successful run) and then adding them back in again to verify the issue but now there's no problem at all.

     

    Only thing I know that has changed was a windows update during the week, so maybe, or maybe I just dreamt the whole thing😶😶.

     

    Oh the help documentation I found clear enough to follow, was just that the steps didn't work for me at the time.

     

    Thanks

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hkim5
Staff

hey @ThomasCasserly 

 

I just tried to replicate the error that you receieved, and it worked fine for me (both with and without spaces)

So when you are referring to:  The page says that if the path to the .pjs or . mds file contains spaces that when adding the Arguments for the scheduled task to enclose the path in quotes "

 

So the initial portion when you said you were getting an error (i pretty much followed the same syntax) and it worked fine.

additional arguments: "C:\Users\casserlyt\Documents\TestComplete 12 Projects\ChromeSpeedIssue\ChromeSpeed\ChromeSpeed.mds" /r /e

( added in the spaces into the testcomplete 12 projects section of that path).

 

the only difference between what you and I did was that I supplied it the .pjs file extension path instead (although that shouldn't really matter)

 

I do agree that the documentation could be a bit more helpful, and I'll contact the docs team to see if we can add in any screenshots or something; but as far as the error itself, it doesnt seem to be a testcomplete issue, seeing as I could find the path whether or not i had the space included within the path specified by the quotation marks.

ThomasCasserly's avatar
ThomasCasserly
Frequent Contributor
5 years ago

Ok,

so today its running fine with the quotes and spaces in the filename path 🤔🤔🤔

I had tried this 4 or 5 times on Monday, editing the path and folder name and to remove spaces and quote (successful run) and then adding them back in again to verify the issue but now there's no problem at all.

 

Only thing I know that has changed was a windows update during the week, so maybe, or maybe I just dreamt the whole thing😶😶.

 

Oh the help documentation I found clear enough to follow, was just that the steps didn't work for me at the time.

 

Thanks

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    hkim5
    Staff
    5 years ago

    classic windows. either way I'm glad that it fixed itself 🙂