Its been a while since a release was made, just curious as to when you guys expect to have a new release available and if you could list the potential upgrades in the new release.

Thanks.

James

Next release will be 3.3.0. It has various bug fixes and a new script view component that allows collapsing of script lines to make large scripts more managable. We are still testing this upcoming release and have not set a release date for it yet.

Kind regards, Support

Taking about the more manageable new release, is it possible to copy/paste actions between scripts? or even better, supporting sub-scripts?

Being able to use (linked-in) sub scripts is an addition we would really like to provide you with and is on our list for some time now. Unfortunately, it it rather involved from a coding point of view. It would scale down the complexity of a large script and provide a better way of reusing code. The upcoming code collapsing/expanding does make large scripts more manageable. A solution for "reuse" is to have a master script and run serveral other scripts from there with the Run Shell Command action. You can communicate between scripts by writing to and reading from files (Typically, schedule a script that does extraction, after that run a script that does clean-up or categorisation of the results).

About copying/pasting: the way to go about is to open a script in duggler, copy lines, open the script you want to paste in and paste the lines there. You cannot have two instances open and copy and paste between them, since we do not use the clipboard. Clipboard copy/paste is also on our list, but we do not yet have a development path for it yet.

Support Team....please consider another feature: The ability to undock/dock the 'Script' pane from the 'Variables & Sources'pane. It gets really difficult, even on a large monitor, to be able to view the next script event with the way the scrolling occurs.

I'm constantly having to resize the dividing pane just to be able to see the upcoming script lines. But doing so, reduces what is visible in the lower pane. In step/troubleshooting mode, its crucial to be able to see the content of both panes easily and simultaneously.

I'm sure collapsible code will help to some degree. But once scripts are expanded, the same problem will remain...unless I'm wrong.

BTW. Djuggler is a superb piece of software. You guys are are doing a great job. Your support in these forums is 'second to none'!

I agree, with extractor. YES a collapsable script is nice since scrolling is awkward and it cleans things up a bit to focus better.

BUT being able to call other scripts from within a script is a must. It is very time consuming and inefficient to open and close scripts just to copy and paste and then saving as different files names since you edited originals makes it a messy process..Being able to copy.paste between 2 instances that are open next to each other would be a begginging solution but calling scripts would be dead on.

Djuggler is impressive and I know you guys are constantly making it better.

Also possible to create global variables that you can use on any script at anytime?

Djuggler variables are always global. So when sub scripts are implemented, it's typically something for the user to be aware off when using the same variable names in two scripts.

DS

by Global Variables I mean, i create a variable called myemail="myemail@yahoo.com"

i close down Duggler and when i reopen it the same variable is available to me. So every new script I dont need to constantly create this variable.. On the same page or is this available already? let me know how to access it if it is..

maybe create a tree structure to the left in the actions panel "My Variables" to list variables we create and be able to place them in different groups (depending on functionality) so that way once they are created they are always accessible.

What you describe sounds like you want templates.

Note that in the latest version you can copy and paste script lines from one Djuggler script to a new instance of a script and it will create all variables that you copy automatically. This is a typically used to setup some standard labels or procedures in your script like soft error and hard error handling or standard inits like email address variables.

Hope this helps.
DS

yes, if thats what they are called then Templates to make building scripts more efficient and quicker..

I always use the "Get System, Get date, format date, Export to Excel" combo, but when I build a new script i always need to find them, add them, move them, create variables for them, etc.

I would love to create a "template" that I double click and it adds these functions with variables that i have built into them already (this is important so I dont constantly need to create these variables since they wont change (maybe 1 change for name property, but thats 1 change out of potential of 8 variables)

There is a handful of multiple actions I always use in conjunction with one another that would be nice to call them into action with variables with 1 click.. Yes templates would be nice.

Please dont mention I can copy/paste from other scripts, this is worse then just starting from scratch.. :) Thanks for listening!

Please find attached my template for a typical web scraper job.
I start by opening this script and save it under my project name.

The scraper template has typically a init section for the output file name, logging, etc. It has a check for an online connection and a hard and soft error handling.

All necessary variables are already in the template.
Hope this helps.
Tijn

thanks for the enclosed template, i have created something similiar, the problem becomes, copy and pasting and moving certain aspects of the template around to fit the projects needs, it gets confusing

i would continue to suggest a clickable action (templated actions) that was pre-created by the user with variables which allow to be plugged anywhere in the script. much easier and cleaner. But yes this template appraoch you have works given the limitation of the above action.