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ScriptA not calling ScriptB as expected

jboyd98 — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 20:39:53 GMT

I have some automation that I'm working on and I am not seeing the expected results. I broke the script down into the following simple version.

ScriptA which is:

demisto.executeCommand("ScriptB", {})

ScriptB which is:
return_results("ScriptB Called")

when I run ScriptA, is there a reason ScriptB would not write to the war room?

Re: ScriptA not calling ScriptB as expected

tyler_bailey — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 20:49:20 GMT

The results of ScriptB are returned from the demisto.executeCommand function. To capture the output of ScriptB, ScriptA should look something like this:

res = demisto.executeCommand("ScriptB", {})[0]["Contents"]
return_results(res)

Re: ScriptA not calling ScriptB as expected

jboyd98 — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 21:17:15 GMT

Thanks @tyler_bailey That fixed the above.

I used the above as a test, but really what I'm trying do is understand why the context data is not available in script B.

ScriptA which is:

return_results(demisto.incidents()[0])

res = demisto.executeCommand('ScriptB', {})[0]["Contents"]
return_results(res)

ScriptB which is:
return_results("ScriptB Called")

return_results(demisto.incidents()[0])

Everything is expected in War Room except my ScriptB "demisto.incidents()[0]" does not seem to be called or it's empty so it doesn't return anything to war room? ScriptA incident data is returned in the war room as a json as expected.

When ScriptB tries to reference the incident data its like it can't find it??

Does that question make sense?

Re: ScriptA not calling ScriptB as expected

LancePettay — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 00:00:14 GMT

Hi @jboyd98 ,

I would just recommend removing the [0]['Contents'] on the end of executeCommand, and do return_results(str(res)) so that you can get an understanding of the entire entry structure. Since you have multiple return_results() in ScriptB, this means the second output would actually be under res[1]["Contents"].

I hope this helps!

-Lance