Execute Command Prompt Step

Brief description

This step executes the defined CMD (command prompt) commands.

Step Information

Step name (Not required) the custom name of the process step that labels the editor’s process step box

Input parameters

  • Path to application (Required)– existing variable name or value that specifies the full path to the application exe file or CMD (command prompt) command
  • Application arguments (Not required) existing variable name or value that specifies the application arguments if the application path is defined

Output parameters

Variable name (Required)– existing or new variable name that contains resulting value

Additional comments

If CMD (command prompt) command that returns value is used, the resulting Variable name contains the returned value. Instead, if a command does not return the value that is used, the resulting Variable name contains an empty value.

This step cannot be used for starting the application window that needs to be referenced in the following process steps.

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