Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
I stumbled across this transcript of a support issue today. It’s somewhat amusing but you can also see how frustrating it must have been for both parties. We get our fair share of awkward support issues, but so far, touch wood, nothing quite as agonising as this one! However, I think there’s a reason for […]
The version of AutoLogon that ships with Macro Scheduler does not support the optional message box that can be set up in Windows Security Policies and appears just after issuing CTRL+ALT+DEL before log on. To address this we have released an update which will be provided in the next maintenance release of Macro Scheduler. In […]
By Ron Lee. Pacejet makes a Transportation Management (TMS) software suite that helps manufactures/distributors ship product via LTL, Truckload, Parcel, etc, and executes their warehouse pick-pack-ship as part of the process. Our software integrates with ERP systems so the customer has one end-to-end process flow in their business from customer to invoice. One of the […]
We’ve updated IEAuto.DLL with the ability to identify elements by their TITLE, ID and numeric INDEX in the ClickTag function. Some people have found websites where a number of ‘A’ elements (links) have identical text and no unique identifiers. WebRecorder will record these but the script may not play back – or only the first […]
Software bugs sometimes have drastic consequences, but check this bug report out: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330884
Microsoft have just announced that Vista will be delayed and won’t be generally available until the beginning of 2007. Read the official announcement. This doesn’t really surprise me. Since November 2005 we have been working with the Vista beta releases to ensure Macro Scheduler will be Vista ready. Finding the information we needed to achieve […]
Scheduling User Interface (UI) automation macros to occur when Windows is logged off or locked is problematic. A full user session needs to be active for a UI macro to work. Why is this? Windows consists of “Window Stations” and “Desktops”. A window station is a secure object that contains a clipboard, a set of […]
Good news – we now have macro recording working nicely under Windows Vista. Macro Scheduler is able to run at the “asInvoker” level, marked as a “uiAccess” application, meaning it does not need to “elevate” and can interact with other processes – so any level of user can run it and record macros successfully. The […]
Thought I’d share this image. This was the view I had on Monday morning from the Alps in the Portes du Soleil. I took Friday and Monday off for a long weekend snowboarding in the French and Swiss Alps. The conditions were the best I have seen in six years and we had four incredible […]
Some good news. I have had confirmation that Macro Scheduler will not have to run elevated at admin levels in order to set a journal hook and record macros. It will only have to be flagged as a “uiAccess” app which will allow it to record across other processes of the same security level. So […]