Creating a New Task

To automate a process on your computer, you must create a new task in AutoMate to do it. The AutoMateÖ New 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

1. Open the AutoMate Task Administrator by either double-clicking the AutoMate icon in the system tray or selecting it from the AutoMate 5 program group.
   
   

2. Click the toolbar button labeled "New"
   
   

3. In the Add Task Wizard, name the task - Give the task a unique name
   
   

4. After pressing next, select 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)
   
   

5. Creating task steps. Choose from AutoMate's available actions to specify what the task should do.  For more information on this important step see Introduction to the Task Builder.

After using the task wizard you can modify your tasks later from the Task Administrator main window 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.

See Also:

Introduction to Triggers

Introduction to Actions