asp fun type mismatch help!

atdawgie · Apr 23, 2004

Hi,

I have program below that works fine if I hard code the values in question but if I try to use variables I get a type mismatch.

If the line reads
Call FirstCOM.CreateUser("MyComputer","myaccount")
it works fine as long as the "MyComputer" is an actual computer.

But if I create a form, type in the two values above, call this asp file in a form action=thisfile.asp I get a type mismatch on the line above. I printout the variables in question to make sure they contain values and they do.

This call doesn't work where comp_name and usr_account are variables
Call FirstCOM.CreateUser(comp_name,usr_account)

Code below:
<html>
<body>
<head><title>testing</title></head>
<% language = vbscript %>
<%dim comp_name
dim usr_account
dim FirstCOM
comp_name = request.form("computername")
usr_account = request.form("account")
response.write(comp_name)
%>

<P>computer: <%= comp_name %>
<P>account: <%= usr_account %>

<%Set FirstCOM = Server.CreateObject("ADSI_COM.UsrMgmt")
Call FirstCOM.CreateUser(comp_name,usr_account) '*****TYPE MISMATCH HERE
Response.write "Error " & Err.number & "<BR>"
Response.write "Done!"
%>
</body>
</html>

Chopstik · Apr 23, 2004

If your COM object is expecting a string, then you probably should set it as a string value before passing it. For example:

Code:

comp_name = CStr(request.form("computername"))
usr_account = CStr(request.form("account")) 'or if this needs to be an integer then set it accordingly
...
Call FirstCOM.CreateUser(comp_name,usr_account)

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atdawgie · Apr 26, 2004

Thanks, oddly enough it worked but only if I put the converted the usr_account string at this line
Call FirstCOM.CreateUser(cStr(comp_name),cStr(usr_account))

instead of this line
usr_account = CStr(request.form("account"))

but it didn't matter when I converted the comp_name string, either line/way worked. Why do you think that is?

Chopstik · Apr 26, 2004

I cannot imagine a reason off the top of my head why it would have failed for the account. What type of data is usually stored in that field? I can say that typically when you are passing a value back to a function (particularly a VB function), unless it is typed as a variant, you need to pass it back from ASP specifically as it is required in the function.

Otherwise, glad that it worked.

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"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."
--Dou

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