| RoboTask can easily automate any series of tasks on your computer system, whether you are a novice or advanced user. You don't even have to know how to program—use RoboTask to build your own automated solutions quickly and easily. Yet RoboTask is powerful.
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| For example, RoboTask can help you avoid losing important data when you create a backup task for placing files on a remote server.
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| The software can manage and trigger a wide variety of repetitive tasks to save your valuable time. With RoboTask, you don't need complicated batch files or scripts.
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| Here are many examples of what RoboTask can do for you:
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| · | Runs applications and open documents.
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| · | Manages automatic backups.
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| · | Alerts you of any changes in your folders.
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| · | Shuts down Windows and powers off your computer triggered by any event you choose.
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| · | Processes files and folders (copies, moves, renames, deletes).
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| · | Works with FTP and Web servers (downloads, uploads, etc).
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| · | Sends letters and files by e-mail.
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| · | Starts and stops Windows NT services.
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| · | Sends network messages as WinPopups.
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| · | Acts as an alarm clock.
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| · | Much more!
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| RoboTask can be used for an unlimited number of tasks. When creating a task, you decide what the task needs to do and when. Every task has two parts:
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| 1. | Actions
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| 2. | Triggering events
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| Actions
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| First, you must decide what actions you want to accomplish. You can select built-in actions in RoboTask to accomplish the following:
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| · | Run applications.
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| · | Open or print documents.
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| · | Emulate your keystrokes.
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| · | File and folder processing (copy, move, delete, rename, synchronize folders).
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| · | Work with FTP servers (download, upload, rename, delete).
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| · | Work with e-mail (check for e-mail, send e-mail).
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| · | Work with ZIP files (pack files, extract files).
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| · | Work with windows (focus, maximize, minimize, restore, close, hide, unhide).
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| · | Flow control (if-then, file loop, text loop, dataset loop, and so forth).
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| Triggering events
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| A triggering event can be one of the following:
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| · | A specific time
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| · | When something happens on your computer.
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| Practically anything that happens on your computer can trigger RoboTask to perform an action. An example would be when RoboTask automatically updates a log and uploads it to a website whenever you receive an email with a subject that is a particular string of words or contains a word such as "Important".
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| The following are examples of triggering events:
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| · | Scheduler (at a specified time).
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| · | Hot Keys (when a special key is pressed).
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| · | Tray Icon (when you double-click it).
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| · | File Monitor (when a particular file is created, destroyed, changed, renamed).
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| · | Dial-up Connection Monitor (when a connection is made or broken).
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| · | Window Watcher (when a window is created, activated, closed, and so forth).
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| · | System Events (time, spooler, device, display changed, log on, log off, on idle).
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 Related Topics
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| Getting Started in the RoboTask Window
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| Create Tasks
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| Run Tasks
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| Edit Tasks
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| Customize RoboTask
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