Using SequenceFilePreStep StepName to Run or Skip Step

[Mikef]

Doug,

Thanks for the suggestion.

I'll try:

    theStep.SetRunModeEx("Skip", RunState.Execution)

and see if that works any different.  (it obviously should!)

  Won't be able to try it for a while because I have a test running.

  I did figure out a way to remove the Precondition "False" using the next step's SequenceFilePostStep, but it's not as clean as I'd like.

Mike

[dug9000]

No problem. Note that if you are running the sequence in more than one thread or execution at a time (e.g. with batch or parallel model), there is a race condition with one thread changing the precondition out from underneath the other. These are shared settings. If you are only running one thread though then it doesn't matter.

-Doug

[Mikef]

Doug,

By the way, I did get a chance to change to code to skip the next step using:

Runstate.Caller.NextStep.SetRunModeEx("Skip", RunState.Execution)

  and it worked great.  Changing the Precondition gave me other problems, such as if I had a precondition, I had to make sure that when I modified it, I had to make sure that it was back at it's previous state (not always easy).

The SetRunModeEx("Skip",RunState.Execution) works great, thanks!

Mike