Newbie question - Selecting from a choice
 

Hi,

I am teaching myself vb and am sure this is simple i guess i just need a shove in the right direction.

I am installing a number of network printers which all install fine but what i would like is for a popup box to appear where the user can select the location from say 5 locations.

basically i have say 50 printers in 5 locations. I want to choose the location and then it would install the printers for that location

location a
location b
location c
location d
location e

and then depending on what they selected is would install all the printers from that location?

I am guessing i would some how need to create a variable for each of location?

Below is how i am currently adding the printers but this way i am having to edit the file a lot my suggested way would be that i could add all the printers and then just choose the location

wnet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\server\printername"

Any help you could offer would be greatfully appreicated.

Phil

sorry this should be in VB script programming could someone move it?

For starters, create functions for each location, and a particular locations function contains all of the printers to install for that location.

I am not sure about getting multiple question/selection options from a VB script, i have seen .hta (html applications) that request input, and from what i have seen, they are pretty much just vbs.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...hubs/htas.mspx

thanks i will check out .hta

A quick way you could do it is have a *.vbs for each area. Then on a web page make a link to each one? Just a random off the top. I am sure there would be security prompts in doing this.

the hta will work thats fine. Another simple question i have is if i have a variable called printserver how would i call it would the below be correct?

wnet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection printserver("") & ("\xxx")

printerserver is the server name pulled from a listbox and xxx is the printer name

i fixed the problem in the end

wnet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection (printserver) & "\xxx"