How To Enable Verbose Status Messages in Makecm.vbs (214792)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Site Server 3.0
This article was previously published under Q214792

SUMMARY

When debugging a modified Makecm.vbs script, it may be necessary to enable verbose status messages from the script in order to troubleshoot where specific errors are occurring. Without verbose status messages enabled, not all diagnostic information will be available.

The following is an example of an error message generated when verbose status messages are not enabled:
Failed to create Schema attribute -- Error Number=80005000 String=
Failed to add attribute ' ' to the schema -- Error Number =0 (0) String=
When verbose status messages are enabled in the script, you will be able to see what content type was being created when the errors were encountered.

MORE INFORMATION

To enable verbose status messages from the Makecm.vbs script, change the g_fStatus variable in the Report() method of the script to True (it is set to False by default). This will cause the script to output status messages to the console and will make troubleshooting errors much easier.

Once verbose status messages is enabled, you should see an output log of exactly what the script is doing as it creates the content management site. You can use this information to pinpoint what content type might be failing, what credentials are being used to access the directory, and so forth.

The following is a snippet of the output of a Makecm.vbs script with verbose status messages enabled:
Server      = myserver
LDAPServer  = myserver:1002
VRoot       = CMApp
VServer     = 1
App Name    = CMApp
App Dir     = D:\CMApp
Creating Deployment Project
Creating Application: CMApp
Creating directory D:\CMApp
Creating directory D:\CMApp\Upload
Creating directory D:\CMApp\Approve
Updating schema for 'SubmitTime'
Creating Document Types
Creating Document Type: JobPostings
    BuildTagTerm: \SampleSite\JobTypes
Updating schema for 'JobType'
    BuildTagTerm: \SampleSite\Departments
Updating schema for 'Department'
Field = ContentAuthor
Field = Title
Field = Abstract
Field = JobNumber
Field = SiteLocale
Field = TopicDisplay
Field = Topic
Field = JobTypeDisplay
Field = JobType
Field = DepartmentDisplay
Field = Department
   Adding Doc Type to App
Creating directory D:\CMApp\JobPostings
Creating Document Type: Specifications
Field = ContentAuthor
Field = Title
Field = Abstract
Field = Editor
Field = Stability
Field = SiteLocale
Field = TopicDisplay
Field = Topic

REFERENCES

For more information on modifying the Makecm.vbs script, search the Site Server documentation for the term "makecm.vbs".
Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:7/1/2004
Keywords:kbhowto kbScript KB214792
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