Scripting For HDM Professional

The program operations can be performed as a script. The script describes the appropriate operation with macro-language commands.  Scripts work in the unattended mode, which enable to automaticaly launch selected operations. This will allow you to automate the process for regular use.

The following steps are applied only for these operating systems:

• Windows XP SP3
• Windows Vista
• Windows 7
• Windows 8
• Windows 8.1
• Windows 10

Startup

To generate scripts, the program directory (default path)  must contain this file – SCRIPTS.exe, which is included in the program installation package. You don’t need to write a script because the program has a convenient interface for this task. To generate a script with the selected operations, you should perform the following steps.

Step 1

Make sure in the Menu Home > Settings >  Application > Virtual Mode Options, the virtual mode of execution is enabled

Step 2

Make sure that you selected all operations that you want to add to the created script.

For exemple:

1. Press the “Backup to VD” 

2. Click “Next”

3. Select “Back up volumes”

4. Select the partitions/disk

5. Check Backup location and Backup name and press “Next”

6. Click “Generate script”

7. Check where to store script file, and click “Next”

8. Press “Finish”

Setup

This is also the second method for creating scripts and adding in to Task List for automatisation action.

! The steps below should be performed before clicking on “Apply”

1. In Menu Shedule, press “Generate Script”  

2. Press button “Generate” in the pop-up window of the script generation

3. To add the created script to Task List tick the box “Add to Task List” 

4. In addition, there is possibility to modify settings (although the default values will do in most cases). To activate the advance mode, you need to click the “More options” button at the foot of the dialog page, so you will be able to define

• Allow to interact with the user. Mark the option to pause the script interpreter during the execution to prompt the user’s confirmation or other input. Otherwise the program will not stop using default values for parameters if needed.
• Commit after each operation. Mark the option to commit changes after each operation.
• Check for errors after each operation. Mark the option to insert a special code in script, which checks the status of the last executed operation and stops the script processing if there are errors of any kind.
• Discard all operations on close. Mark the option to empty the List of Pending Operations after generating the script.
• Use disk ID. Mark the option to use a disk ID instead of an index in the script.

Result

After the operation is completed you receive a new script. It is placed into the specified destination and automatically add to the Task List in your operating system, its features defined in the dialog, actions of which you determined earlier by selecting the necessary operations in programm Paragon Hard Disk Manager Professional.

• ! This command is unavailable if there are no operations on the List of Pending Operations.
• ! To learn more about scripts please consult the Paragon Scripting Language manual.

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