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VirtualScooter
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Reputation: 1888

What version of VBScript is used in Power Automate Desktop?

Within Power Automate Desktop, I can create an action to run a VBScript. For example, if I have created a variable CurrentDate with the Get current date and time action, then the following script in a VBScript action will generate output in a text variable in PAD:

VBTest = 3
WScript.Echo VBTest
WScript.Echo "%CurrentDate%"
WScript.Echo "Year %CurrentDate.Year%"&" DOW %CurrentDate.DayOfWeek%"

Output captured in variable:

3
12/5/21 12:00:00 AM
Year 2021 DOW Sunday

But what is the version of the scripting engine used, and how can I get more info about what is available?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1046

Answers (1)

VirtualScooter
VirtualScooter

Reputation: 1888

Documentation about VBScript (which is no longer actively updated by Microsoft, it cannot even by found in the product life cycle search) can be found under previous versions of Internet Explorer.

Running the following VBScript in Power Automate Desktop 2.14 reveals the scripting engine "VBScript Version 5.8.16384".

Function GetScriptEngineInfo
   Dim s
   s = ""   ' Build string with necessary info.
   s = ScriptEngine & " Version "
   s = s & ScriptEngineMajorVersion & "."
   s = s & ScriptEngineMinorVersion & "."
   s = s & ScriptEngineBuildVersion 
   GetScriptEngineInfo = s   ' Return the results.
End Function
WScript.Echo GetScriptEngineInfo

Upvotes: 1

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