Exception when trying to FTP upload with a empty file set

FinalBuilder Discussion
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I get an exception when trying to do a FTP upload with an empty file set.

I would like to skip the action but I don’t’ know how to check the file set name (“NewBuilds”) in a script to see if it is empty.

Thank you,

Ed Dressel

2

Hi Ed

I haven’t been able to reproduce this, but will do more testing on this today. What version/build are you using?

You can use an If then… action with an expression

%NewBuilds.IsEmpty%

to decide whether to do the upload or not.

3

I created a group and tried the following VB code:

SkipAction = %NewTRAKBuilds.IsEmpty%

which gives me an exception:

Invalid character
Line: 2
Char : 14

I then tried:

SkipAction = NewTRAKBuilds.IsEmpty

and get the exception:

Object doesn’t support this property or method: ‘NewTRAKBuilds.IsEmpty’
Line: 2
Char : 1

I don’t have NewTRAKBuilds defined as a variable–I would not know what type of variable to define it as.

Thank you,

Ed Dressel

4

FB v. 8.0.0.2897

5

Fileset.IsEmpty wasn’t exposed to scripting (it is now, I just added it). I’ll upload a build with this fix shortly.

The %NewBuilds.IsEmpty% expression can only be used in text fields, not scripting.

6

Thank you for the response–can I use it in the version I am in? I tried it in the group’s Execute Condition and it failed there as well.

7

The condition field is actually a Script so you can’t use the expression there, however you can use the If Then… action to achieve this.

8

This build adds the FileSet.IsEmpty to scripting and improves empty fileset handling for the FTP Upload action.

https://downloads.finalbuilder.com/downloads/finalbuilder/800/FB800_2899.exe