How to Read Lazy Properties
Published : April 11, 2005
This example shows how to retrieve lazy properties. The assigned schedule properties for advertisements are lazy. Therefore, when querying advertisements, each advertisement instance must be retrieved separately and the assigned schedule properties must be parsed separately.
For more information on lazy properties, see SMS Objects.
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To read a lazy property
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To read a lazy property
Connect to an SMS Provider, and get the SWbemServices object.
Get a collection of all advertisements:
Set colAdvertisements = objSWbemServices.ExecQuery("Select * From SMS_Advertisement")
Iterate through the advertisement collection and display the lazy properties:
For Each objAdvert In colAdvertisements WScript.Echo "ActionInProgress = " & objAdvert.ActionInProgress WScript.Echo "AdvertFlags = " & objAdvert.AdvertFlags WScript.Echo "AdvertisementID = " & objAdvert.AdvertisementID WScript.Echo "AdvertisementName = " & objAdvert.AdvertisementName 'For the lazy properties, get the advertisements individually. Set lazyproperties = objSWbemServices.Get("SMS_Advertisement.AdvertisementID='" & ObjAdvert.advertisementid & "'") WScript.Echo "Assigned Schedule = {" for i=0 to ubound(lazyproperties.assignedschedule,1) WScript.Echo " instance of " & lazyproperties.Properties_("AssignedSchedule").Value(0).Path_.Class WScript.Echo lazyproperties.Properties_("AssignedSchedule").Qualifiers_("CIMType") WScript.Echo " DayDuration: " & lazyproperties.AssignedSchedule(i).DayDuration WScript.Echo " Hourspan: " & lazyproperties.AssignedSchedule(i).HourSpan WScript.Echo " IsGMT: " & lazyproperties.AssignedSchedule(i).IsGMT WScript.Echo " StartTime: " & lazyproperties.AssignedSchedule(i).StartTime WScript.Echo "AssignedScheduleEnabled = " & lazyproperties.AssignedScheduleEnabled WScript.Echo "AssignedScheduleIsGMT = " & lazyproperties.AssignedScheduleIsGMT next WScript.Echo "}" WScript.Echo "CollectionID = " & objAdvert.CollectionID WScript.Echo "Comment = " & objAdvert.Comment Next
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How to Connect to an SMS Provider