Write to Text File expands embedded variables

FinalBuilder Discussion
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Hi,

We're using TFS Query Work Items and Write to Text File actions to create a HTML report.

The HTML output from the Query Work Items action is written to our BUILD_TFS_QUERY_RESULTS variable. If a TFS work item title contains a percentage character, i.e. "%*error%", then Write to Text File expands not only BUILD_TFS_QUERY_RESULTS, but what it believes are FB variables in the variable from our query.

I have considered changing my SELECT query to replace "%" with "" but that's not ideal nor is asking our testers/developers not to use the % character.

Is there a way to prevent Write to Text File recursively expanding variables?

Many thanks,

Heath.

 

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Hi Heath

This article should help : https://www.finalbuilder.com/articles.aspx?mid=370&ctl=ArticleView&articleId=10

This info is also in the help file

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Hi Vincent,

That worked perfectly. 

Thanks,

Heath.

 

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The link to the solution doesn’t work anymore.
Can someone explain how to solve this problem?

thanks,
Tobi

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Hmmm… not sure why that doesn’t work, but this should : https://www.finalbuilder.com/articles.aspx?ID=10