So I am just testing a new custom PowerShell activity. This works fine and does exactly what I would expect in a test:
However, when I add this to a script file, I can't figure out how to pass my ${activityInput.groupName} variable to the $Server variable in the PowerShell script. Here is the script I added to the Midserver:
How do I pass my ${activityInput.groupName} into the Powershell script file?
I tried changing my Midserver script to this:
and then updating my Powershell custom activity to this:
But that also didn't work....
Any help here?
For anyone trying to do this in the future, we found 2 different ways to do it...both easy:
Solution 1:
Point to the PS1 file and then pass the variable ($Server was the variable in our Example). In our example, we were just outputting a text file on the midserver so our target host was the midserver itself. I had to check "Use MID Service Account" because of creating the text file on itself when running.
Solution 2:
Go to MID Server -> Script Files and create a new Script there. Below is the screenshot of the script you would then point to in your custom Powershell activity. The custom Powershell activity "Script Type" would then become a "MID Server Script File" (then choose your script you created) and the "Server" variable in my example would now be "Servername" because of Servername being my variable in the below screenshot.
These are just examples of how to pass variables to a custom PS1 file or a Script File created within ServiceNow in the MID Server application.
For anyone trying to do this in the future, we found 2 different ways to do it...both easy:
Solution 1:
Point to the PS1 file and then pass the variable ($Server was the variable in our Example). In our example, we were just outputting a text file on the midserver so our target host was the midserver itself. I had to check "Use MID Service Account" because of creating the text file on itself when running.
Solution 2:
Go to MID Server -> Script Files and create a new Script there. Below is the screenshot of the script you would then point to in your custom Powershell activity. The custom Powershell activity "Script Type" would then become a "MID Server Script File" (then choose your script you created) and the "Server" variable in my example would now be "Servername" because of Servername being my variable in the below screenshot.
These are just examples of how to pass variables to a custom PS1 file or a Script File created within ServiceNow in the MID Server application.
