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# Technical Summary

## Working with other Tools

The other tools that the Run VBScript tool interacts directly with, whether by exposing information to it or consuming information from it, are listed below.

### Consuming from Other Tools

Icon | Tool Name | Tool Category
--- | --- | ---
| Database Query (ODBC) | Input and Data Connectors
| Database Query (OLEDB) | Input and Data Connectors
| Import Flat File | Input
| Convert XML to Recordset | Format
| Create Workflow Job | Format
| Format as Flat File | Format
| Format as HTML | Format
| Format as Text | Format
| Run Crystal Report | Format
| Run Microsoft Reporting Services | Format
| Run Microsoft Word (Merge) | Format
| Filter Data | General

### Objects Consumed

Objects that the Run VBScript Step consumes that are exposed by other Steps are listed below.

|  | Recordset — Information structured into columns and rows

|  | Variables (Text) — Textual data is extracted from selected Variables

|  | Documents (Text) — One or multiple plain text documents

|  | Documents (HTML) — One or multiple HTML documents

|  | Documents (Paged HTML) — One or more multiple paginated HTML documents

|  | Documents (PDF) — One or multiple PDF documents

|  | Documents (RTF) — One or multiple RTF document

|  | Documents (XML) — One or multiple XML documents

|  | Documents (CSV) — Output from a Run Crystal Report Step

### Exposing to Other Tools

The Run VBScript tool does not expose any objects that are directly consumed by other tools.

### Objects Exposed

Objects that the Run VBScript Step exposes that can be utilised by other Steps are listed below.

|  | RecordSource — If an Input Recordset has been selected from a Step previously created in the Task, then it displays the columns included in the recordset.

|  | DocumentSource — If a Document Source has been selected from a Step previously created in the Task, then it displays the columns included in the recordset used by the Step.

|  | Memory Definitions — Displays a list of Memory Definitions created for the Step and the columns to be memorised for each one. Double-clicking on a Memory Definition then opens the applicable memory configuration dialog box to enable the details to be edited.

|  | Step Properties — A number of properties for the Step are exposed in the Environment tab of the Task Browser dialog box

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