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This adds a text enclosed to the <comment> element and nested into the <package>. Therefore, it is a comment to the whole project (*.wsf file) rather than to one of the jobs in it. This text has no impact on the project execution.

Job name

The content of the project file (*.wsf) can be splitted into more tasks, jobs. Each job is enclosed to the <job> element. In order it is possible to select one or more jobs to run they should have unique names. The job name can be specified on the command line for WScript.exe or CScript.exe. Therefore, it is recommended to keep the job names short, descriptive and without spaces.

The comment is a text enclosed to the <comment> element and nested into the <job>. Therefore, it is a comment to the job rather than to the whole project file (*.wsf). This text has no impact on the project execution.

Version info

This option adds <resource> element containing a short version string. If the checkbox Display version info when /ver parameter is used is checked a code snippet is added as an embedded script.

Author info

This option adds <resource> element containing a multi-line text describing the author of the script. If the checkbox Display author info when /author parameter is used is checked a code snippet is added as an embedded script.

Check params

If either of the checkboxes is checked, or any mandatory parameter is listed, the <runtime> element is added with all the relevant sub-elements. If the checkbox Display usage info when project started with no parameters is checked a code snippet is added as an embedded script.
If there are any optional parameters they should not be listed here. Edit the <runtime> element later to add them.

Check host

If either Only by WScript.exe or Only by CScript.exe is checked a code snippet is added as an embedded script. This way it is possible to ensure that the project will be executed only by the host for which it was developped.

Create objects

The <object> element will be added for each checked object in the list. It is advisable to create all the objects that should be available globally through all the following embedded scripts. This will simplify the scripts as it is not necessary to declare variables for the objects and create them with functions like CreateObject(). The list shows objects that are listed as Used Objects for the current Workspace, but it is possible to add any other object as well.

Use libraries

The <script> element will be added for each checked file in the list. It references the script by the file name with a path relative to the default folder of the current Workspace. Therefore, these scripts are handled as external scripts and don't become a part of the created project file (*.wsf).

Main script

This option adds <script> element at the very bottom of the <job> element. It creates the main embedded script that is supposed to reference the other embedded scripts (the script code specific to the project) or external scripts (libraries).

Remark: The code snippets added by the Wizard are in VBScript. It doesn't matter that you may wish to write the project code in another language because WSF enables to freely mix languages and you won't probably need to edit the snippets.