Difficulty w/conditional build rule and script expression

[jdavidi]

Greetings!

I'm having difficulty today with regard to properly evaluting my conditional build rule. It's probably some syntax error either in my build condition expression or the VBScript; I'm hoping someone can point out where I went wrong...

Essentially, I have a macro, CMD_COMPONENTFILENAME; I wish to test it for 3 particular values. If it hits, I want to perform all the child steps, and ignore them if CMD_COMPONENTFILENAME is not in the "list" I provide.

I have set up a Group step, and have checked the 'Build only if Macro or expression' option, and I've set the expression to:

[ValidTP="yay"]

and chose "is true" from the dropdown.

In the Step tab of the Script Editor for this Step, I have the following VBScript:

Option Explicit

Function ValidTP()
Dim jdav
jdav=vbld_AllMacros.Item("CMD_COMPONENTNAME").Valu e
If jdav = "API - TP - LD Disconnect" Or jdav="LogManager" Or jdav = "TestApp" Then
ValidTP = "yay"
Else ValidTP = "boo"
End If
End Function


I'd like to know if ValidTP gets set to "yay" or "boo" and go from there; if I use the Immediate window and evaluate ValidTP when I've set CMD_COMPONENTFILENAME to either of the three strings I'm after, it prints "yay" as expected, and "boo" if anything else.

Is my expression in the conditional build rule field incorrect? Do I need some sort of return command?

I've tried putting just [ValidTP] in the conditional expression (along with "is equal to" "yay") but that always skips the steps.

Hope I was able to describe it clear enough. Thanks in advance for any assitance.

-JDAVIDI