Using batch wizard and missing reports

[Daniel Lacroix]

Hi Albert,

I found the following ... with current v10. No problem when using v8.04.

Using the batch wizard to validate the following sub-folders on my C drive
c:\webs\www.tbs-sct.gc.ca\report
c:\webs\www.tbs-sct.gc.ca\reports-rapports
c:\webs\www.tbs-sct.gc.ca\rp
c:\webs\www.tbs-sct.gc.ca\rpp

CSE would produce 2 reports or 4 reports depending on the ordering of what to validate!


Here is how to reproduce it.


Calling the following batch file
call "c:\Program Files\htmlvalidator100\cmdlineprocessor.exe" -f c:\validator\www-tbs\batch-www-tbs-valid.inc

Content of batch-www-tbs-valid.inc
// only line 2 and line 4 would produce a validation report
-b1 c:\validator\www-tbs\www-tbs-valid-reports-rapports.lst
-b1 c:\validator\www-tbs\www-tbs-valid-report.lst
-b1 c:\validator\www-tbs\www-tbs-valid-rpp.lst
-b1 c:\validator\www-tbs\www-tbs-valid-rp.lst
-q

Content of batch-www-tbs-valid.inc
// CSE would create 4 validation reports
-b1 c:\validator\www-tbs\www-tbs-valid-report.lst
-b1 c:\validator\www-tbs\www-tbs-valid-reports-rapports.lst
-b1 c:\validator\www-tbs\www-tbs-valid-rp.lst
-b1 c:\validator\www-tbs\www-tbs-valid-rpp.lst
-q

Content of www-tbs-valid-report.lst
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<csebatchwizardtargetlist version="8">
<options htmlreportfilename="c:\reports\www-tbs-valid-report.htm" htmlreportcssfilename="c:\validator\default.css" excludestrings="*format=print.htm;*printable=true*" />
<target flags="1069547546" target="c:\webs\www.tbs-sct.gc.ca\report" />
</csebatchwizardtargetlist>


Thanks,
Daniel.

[Albert Wiersch]

Thanks for the report. I should be able to investigate this sometime next week and I'll get back to you then.

[Albert Wiersch]

Hi Daniel,

Are you sure that each report has its own unique report filename, otherwise older reports will get overwritten.

Also, are you getting any messages anywhere that might provide more clues as to what is going on?

I'm wondering if it could be a virus checker interfering. If it is causing trouble, like not letting CSE HTML Validator properly check that it can write the report file, then CSE HTML Validator may skip that report, but then you say it works with v8 so it could be a bug... did it work with v8 on the same system?

An option to save the Batch Progress to a file after a job is finished sounds like it would be helpful in this case.

[Daniel Lacroix]

Hi Albert,

The same behavior is happening on 2 of my production systems.

I will be sending some files to replicate the problem.

From what I can see, the problem occurs when you have similar filenames for reports with similar characters at the beginning.

Since this is running with the batch wizard, I cannot see what is going on ...

Daniel.

[Albert Wiersch]

Hi Daniel,

What happens if you uncheck the "Automatically delete old report files before generating a new report" option in the Report Options->File Options page of the Batch Wizard Options? That option\ was added in 9.02 and I'm wondering if it has something to do with the missing reports that you say are similarly named.

[Daniel Lacroix]

Albert,

I tried your suggestion and it is working.

Thanks again.

Daniel.

[Albert Wiersch]

I tried your suggestion and it is working.

Great... I'll take a look at the code that deletes the old reports and the report filenames you're using and try to address this problem for a future update.

[Albert Wiersch]

This has been fixed for the next update. Thanks for the report!