These are the Frequently Asked Questions for RTG Scripts.

• Writing new scripts
• Demo version
• Script 1000 Fails
• Report Script Wizard Fails

Q: Can I write new scripts?

A: You can if you know the VBScript language. Here's a nice online introduction:

If you search online for "VBScript Tutorials" you will find that most of the information deals with using VBScript on Web pages. We are more concerned with VBScript as used by the Windows Script Host, and the link above deals with that topic.

The RTG-supplied scripts can be used as a guide to the features of RTG Scripts that have been added by RTG to make it easier to work with RTG Bills and RTG Timer. There's also some documentation in the help file, describing the programming features added by RTG.

Note that the Report Script Wizard in RTG Scripts writes scripts automatically. It can write a script to create any report in RTG Bills, RTG Timer, or RTG Reports.

Do you have a good idea for a script, but you don't want to write it yourself (or hire a programmer to write it)? Send us your idea and perhaps we'll do it for you. We're not promising anything, but we do hope to add more scripts based on user suggestions.

Q: Is there a demo version of RTG Scripts?

A: No. It's hard to devise a demo that can do some things like the full program and yet not be the full program.

We do offer a tour of the program to show you what the screens look like:

At the end of the tour is a link to the Report Script Wizard tour, so you can see how report scripts are created.

Q: Script 1000 ("Test the RTG Scripts installation") gives an error message. What's wrong?

A: Some software that RTG Scripts requires is not installed on your computer. Most likely you can solve the problem by upgrading to Version 1.02.

Choose File > Upgrade from the RTG Scripts menu. Click Yes. At the Upgrade RTG Scripts window, click the About button. Do you have RTG Upgrade V2.04 or above? If you have an earlier version, you must upgrade RTG Upgrade before you can upgrade RTG Scripts. Exit from RTG Upgrade and get the latest version here:

After you install the latest version of RTG Upgrade, start RTG Scripts and choose File > Upgrade again. Click the About button to confirm that the version number is V2.04 or above. Now you can upgrade RTG Scripts to V1.02.

Q: I installed RTG Scripts on a computer that has RTG Timer installed but not RTG Bills. I want a script to generate an RTG Timer report, but I get an error message when I start the Report Script Wizard. What's wrong?

A: The Report Script Wizard only works when it is in the same place as the RTG Bills database. To work around this problem, always use the copy of RTG Scripts that is installed in the same place as RTG Bills to create report scripts.

When you are asked to enter the location of RTG Timer, do not use the Browse button. Instead, type the location of RTG Timer from the point of view of the computer that will run the script.

For example, suppose RTG Bills is installed on a file server and RTG Timer is installed on a workstation in C:\Program Files\Rtgbills. Start RTG Scripts on the server to create a script to run on the workstation. Run the Report Script Wizard.

When you are asked for the Timer location, enter C:\Program Files\Rtgbills. The Wizard may say that it cannot find RTG Timer in this location, but click Yes to proceed anyway.

If you don't get the option to continue anyway, you have Version 1.01 of RTG Scripts and you must upgrade to the next version. Click here and follow the instructions to upgrade.

After the Wizard has finished the script, you must copy two files to the workstation. The files to copy are SNNNN.rsi and SNNNN.rst, where NNNN is the script number. For example, script 2000 uses the files S2000.rsi and S2000.rst. You will find these files in the Scripts subfolder of the RTG Bills folder on the server. Copy them to the workstation, into the folder C:\Program Files\Rtgbills\Scripts.

Now that you have the script files on the workstation, you can use RTG Scripts on the workstation to run the report script.