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acaldwell1-Visitor
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December 23, 2015
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Use a Script to determine Creo 2 and 3 datecode?

  • December 23, 2015
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Working on a new startup script and we have users on various datecodes of Creo 2 and 3.  I need to find a way to obtain the buildcode they are using and populate that into a variable for a script.

This was done previously in Creo 1 and earlier versions via the below;

REM find the version of Creo

for /F "tokens=2 usebackq" %%A IN (`findstr "SHIPCODE" %proload%\uninstall\instlog.txt`)DO set CREO_VER=%%A

for /F "useback tokens=*" %%a IN ('%creo_ver%') DO set creo_ver=%%~a

But with Creo 2 and beyond this method no longer works.  Anyone have a work around or solution they've implemented in the past?


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Best answer by jgrossett

SET CREODIR=C:\PTC\Creo 3.0

for /f %%G in ('dir "%creodir%" /B /A:D') DO SET LASTBUILD=%%G

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jgrossett1-VisitorAnswer
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December 23, 2015

SET CREODIR=C:\PTC\Creo 3.0

for /f %%G in ('dir "%creodir%" /B /A:D') DO SET LASTBUILD=%%G

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KevinBrault10-Marble
10-Marble
December 23, 2015

Here is another option. I use this to grab several variables from both the local install and master site and notify the user if they are out of date.

for /f "tokens=2,6,9,11,13,15 usebackq" %%a in (`findstr "<PRODUCT" "%InstallSource%\Creo_%CreoVersion%\Installer_App_Win%WinVer%\pim\xml\creobase.xml"`) do (

  if not "%%a"=="" set %%a

  if not "%%b"=="" set %%b

  if not "%%c"=="" set %%c

  if not "%%d"=="" set %%d

  if not "%%e"=="" set %%e

  if not "%%f"=="" set %%f

)

You'll end up with several environment variables set (e.g. "datecode").

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davehaigh13-Aquamarine
13-Aquamarine
December 28, 2015

This syntax originally came from Olaf Corten, It works for me so I haven't mucked with it.

For Creo 3 I have this in my startup script.

set CREO3PATH=C:\PTC\Creo 3.0

** REM Check and set current build

set CREOVERSION=Unknown

** REM CREOVERSION will be set to the alphabetical latest folder

FOR /F %%i IN ('dir /AD /B /ON "%CREO3PATH%\F*" "%CREO3PATH%\M*"') DO (set CREOVERSION=%%i)

** REM Error message if no build folder has been found

IF NOT EXIST "%CREO3PATH%\%CREOVERSION%\Common Files"  echo ERROR: No valid Creo 3.0 build found in %CREO3PATH% (%CREOVERSION%)

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