Introduction to BASIC Scripting

The AutoMate's BASIC Scripting engine is designed primarily to provide data formatting and retrieval capabilities. All functions, instructions and definitions are Visual BASIC for Applications (VBA tm Microsoft) compatible. BASIC scripting functions can be used to return data inside of an action parameter by surrounding a valid expression with percent signs.

Example:

%left(varname,2)%

Or alternatively a BASIC script may be executed by using the BASIC Script action which allows creation of multi-line BASIC compatible scripts.