When I write PowerShell scripts for MOVEit, I always design them to be used as standalone scripts and add support for grabbing parameters from MOVEit. MOVEit provides a variable named $miaclient that allows you to easily interact with MOVEit from PowerShell. You can use the Test-Path commandlet to determine if you are inside MOVEit or running locally.

Example:

[CmdletBinding()]

Param(

    [Parameter(Mandatory = $false)]

        [string]$Environment,

    [Parameter(Mandatory = $false)]

        [string]$Client,

    [Parameter(Mandatory = $false)]

        [string]$ManifestName,

    [Parameter(Mandatory = $false)]

        [string]$OutputType

)

if( Test-Path variable:\miaclient ){

    $Environment    = $miaclient.MIGetTaskParam("Environment")

    $Client         = $miaclient.MIGetTaskParam("Client")

    $ManifestName   = $miaclient.MIGetTaskParam("ManifestName")

    $OutputType     = $miaclient.MIGetTaskParam("OutputType")

}

function Write-Err {

    param( [string] $Msg )

    if( Test-Path variable:\miaclient ){

        $miaclient.MILogMsg( $Msg )

        $miaclient.MISetErrorCode(10000)

        $miaclient.MISetErrorDescription("Error: $Msg")

    }

    else {

        Write-Output "$(Get-Date -Format 'G' ) - ERROR - $Msg"

    }

    Add-Content -Value "$(Get-Date -Format 'G' ) - ERROR - $Msg" -Path $Global:LogFileName

    Write-EventLog -Logname Application -Source $Global:Source -EventID 102 -Message $Msg -EntryType Error

    Send-MailMessage -From $Global:From -To $Global:Recipients -Subject "Create-Manifest Error" -Body $Msg -SmtpServer "mta.server.us" -Priority "High"

}

Hope this helps,

Chuck Fox

Advisory Developer

iPipeline, Inc.

Just use this in the powershell script:

$foldername = $miaclient.MIGetTaskParam("foldername")

$jobname = $miaclient.MIGetTaskParam("jobname")

If you need to return a variable back into the task, use this:

$miaclient.MISetTaskParam("jobname",$jobname)

As an example, this PS script is used to accumulate filenames to pass into an email next action

$append = $miaclient.MIGetTaskParam("Append")

$newvalue = $miaclient.MIGetTaskParam("NewValue")

$append = $append + $newvalue

$a = $miaclient.MISetTaskParam("Append",$append)

$a = $miaclient.MILogMsg($append)

the parameter NewValue contains the [Origname] macro with some formatting, then I just use [PARM:Append] in the email