AutoMate is designed to assist IT Professionals and others in creating automated tasks to handle repetitive or mundane work for you such as starting stopping programs at certain times, backing up files, transferring data from databases, sending files through the Internet, and more. Unlike scripting and batch files, these tasks are designed visually using drag and drop building blocks. The building blocks that comprise AutoMate tasks are called Triggers and Actions.
Triggers control what causes the task to execute on a user’s machine (when running AutoMate). Examples of available triggers include Schedule, Hotkey, or Window Watcher.
Actions (sometimes called steps) control what the task actually does upon running, actions such as Starting Programs, copying files, connecting to the Internet, starting and stopping services and more (over 100 available) are arranged sequentially in the order which the are meant to be executed via AutoMate’s visual design tool – the Step Builder.
This building block approach allows extremely rapid development of AutoMate tasks for standalone machines.
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