In my last post I showed you how to write an Image Recognition script in Macro Scheduler to automate a remote Citrix session. I demonstrated how to use Image Recognition functions to look for screen objects and create an Outlook email.

Well, in this demo I show you how to automate the exact same process using AppNavigator. The video is just over two minutes long and that includes the time taken to build the routine and play it back! You can see that there is no coding involved. Anyone who knows the process could create the routine.

Watch the video and compare to building the same process with code.

This is a very basic example where all we do is create an email. In the real world we’d take it further and we may also want to add failover checks to handle situations where window objects fail to appear or change. With the first solution we’d need to modify the code to handle this and our script would become much more complicated. With AppNavigator it would be a simple case of adding a not found action to the relevant images. We could tell it to try again, stop, jump to a different image, send an email (with a screen shot) to admin, run a script … etc. Maintenance becomes so much easier and less prone to introducing bugs compared to modifying long scripts of code.

This entry was posted on Friday, February 23rd, 2007 at 8:36 pm and is filed under Automation. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.