Scripting

Here's the bones of the logic you're looking for.


Set objfso = wscript.createobject("scripting.filesystemobject")

if objfso.fileexists("\\SERVER\SHARE\FILE.EXT") Then
' Do Something here
Else
' Do Something Else here
End If


This may be presumptuous, but I assume you already know how to set up a shell object to run whatever commands it is you're going to be running. This is just the If/Then to look for a file and then do something.

Earthworm,
It would be valuable for you to attempting doing some basic searches and attempting to write a script before posting.

You want to see if a file"exists" then "run" that executable, else "run" the app anyway.

Focus on each part of the script and make something that does each part. (Exist & objShell.Run) - almost made you find the objShell part of that.
Then mash them together.

Go to the microsoft scripting guys web page and download the portable script center, where you can search for important terms, and build a script around that.
Good luck,
Brian

Sorry J,

not sure what you mean by setting up a shell object?

I've got the whole find the file logic and can find it, but not sure how to tell it to launch the exe if it can find it. Also not to sure what the syntax is to say "If you cant find the file just do nothing and carry on launching the application" thats what I seem to be struggling on. Sorry to come across a dork but havent been doing scripting very long

Here's the other portion of the script that you'd be looking for, this will run a command of your choosing. see if you can put the whole thing together the right way and see what you come up with.




Set WshShell = wscript.createobject("wscript.shell")

wshshell.run "C:\INSERT\PROGRAM\HERE.EXT",1,true