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Questions tagged [automation]

Making a process run completely or in part without the need of any user input once the process is started.

Automation is usually applied when a large number of similar tasks have to be executed in a row.

Examples of automation are:

  • The processing and validation of user input through a set of rules.
  • Automatically running system diagnostics every X time.
  • Looking up information about songs and labelling the MP3 file accordingly.

Common utilities used for automation include:

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Is there a way to automatically run scripts based on conditions on PC/Mac/Linux, like Tasker for Android?

I'm not thinking about pure scheduled tasks, but rather things where a daemon in the background will automatically trigger a script when certain conditions are met. For those who have used Tasker on Android, you probably have an idea of what I'm…
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Automate Application - How to answer a prompt in a batch file

Really appreciate an answer. The application I am running, requires a user id and password immediately to be input manually. The application is run at dos command prompt. How can i include this in a batch file (ie. the application to be executed,…
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conditional automated clicking software

I'm looking for some software/program/tool that can click based on criteria I give it, such as, go look at the value of the number here, if it's equal to x, click on z. So the criteria is not time.. Does that exist or should I develop it?
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Where can I find a good Plagiarism Checking Script?

I am writing a dissertation for my final-year project and I know that regardless of what I write there are going to be similarities to stuff out there on the web and in academic journals and books. Thankfully for most Google can root out most of…
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How can I use a script to control another application?

For example, I want to write a script to control and automate a sequence of steps in an application. How can I communicate between my script and the application I want to automate?
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How do I automate part of visually checking and signing off on 2,000 urls?

I have a couple thousand URLs to the same page (just different parameters). I need some way to automate loading one URL at a time into a browser or view. After looking at a page to make sure it is okay, I would then press "Good" or "Bad". After that…
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Cypress- can't record test

Can anyone help me with test recording in Cypress?!?!? I can not record the test and tried all the possible ways that are on the internet. I always get this error "'cypress' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or…
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How to automate renaming inside a pop-up window from clipboard?

I'll be doing the following task for literally thousands of times in the next days. It is part of a series of tasks that are subjective and cannot be automated, but this one can, I find it the most exhausting. Can I automate the following and…
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Winbatch how to set focus on next editbox?

How to set focus on next editbox? I have dialog with focused first editobx, I filled data by SendKey() function. But I don't know, how to switch to next editbox. I am using Winbatch. Code: Delay(3);for switch app top = WinGetactive(…
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Run a program on this Christmas and then every few hours

My girlfriend has sort of strong perversion for colored stripes. She likes stripes on everything. So I decided I could set up a little surprise for Christmas and I made I program that generates pretty colored stripes and sets them as windows desktop…
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I wanted to flash a message on my screen every hour

So I just put it on the Task Scheduler to open this .txt every hour but it always ends up opening up the "Open with" menu and giving me "Acess denied" when I choose the program. Does anybody know of a better way of doing this? I'm on Windows 8.
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Implementing an automation task

I am looking to implement some automation on my computer. I want to copy a file from a source directory into multiple folders of a target directory, and rename each copy to its original name plus the name of the folder. What's the best way to go…
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Automated logon program

I have an xp machine... which runs a program... that likes to lock up. Using a computer monitoring program we can now tell that it's locked up. My next step is to reboot the computer on lockup... login to windows automatically (easily done)... Start…
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UI Path Studio package updates

I am trying to update some packages in UI Path Studio and am getting errors. Backstory: Studio is installed on a VM in our Citrix environment. Error message: NuGet.Protocol.Core.Types.FatalProtocolException: The feed…
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application that copies all links in a web page

I have to download something and those 100+ links to megaupload are all in the same webpage. Do you know of a better way of copying those links instead of copy and pasting them one by one? So that it will accumulate all the links, or portion of the…
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