To automate a process on your computer, you must create a new task in AutoMate to do it. The AutoMate™ Task Wizard is designed make the task creation process easy by walking you through the required steps.
To create a task, perform the following steps
Open the AutoMate Configuration Manager by either double-clicking the AutoMate icon in the system tray or selecting it from the AutoMate 4 program group.
Click the toolbar button labled "New"
A wizard will appear guiding you through the task creation process, this will be comprised of the following steps:
Creating task steps Choose from AutoMate's available actions to specify what the task should do
Selecting the task Triggers Choose from AutoMate's available triggers to specify what should cause this task to run (e.g. Schedule, hotkey, Window popup or other event)
Name the task - Give the task a unique name
After defining your actions in the Step Builder, the wizard will prompt you for the triggers you wish to use. Depending on the check boxes you select, the wizard will modify its content to request more specific information for each of the triggers you selected.
At the end of the wizard you are prompted to enter a name for the task, and then asked a few additional questions:
Whether you would like a icon shortcut on the desktop to start this task.
Whether you would like to open the advanced properties dialog box afterwards to modify more task properties.
Whether the task should delete itself after it runs once.
After using the task wizard you can modify your tasks later from the Configuration Manager dialog box by either double clicking the task, by selecting the task and selecting the menus File | Properties, or by selecting the task and clicking the Properties toolbar button.
You may disable the Task Wizard if you prefer not to go through the wizard. Tasks will be created as "Untitled" when you press the New toolbar button.
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