Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
We’re excited to share an early Beta version of something we’ve been experimenting with here at MJT Net: 👉 Macro Scheduler Agent — an AI-powered web tool to help you write, improve, and troubleshoot Macro Scheduler scripts. What can it do? Important caveats — this is Beta! We’re calling this an experimental Beta for good reason: ✅ It’s an […]
TLDR: No! That’s not what we’re here for. Robotic process automation is here to help you. We often get called in to help a company automate a process. Many times this involves automating something that an end-user does. To make macros that make their job easier, less painful, and make them more productive. Initial Resistance […]
Before Macro Scheduler existed I was a junior member of an IT department. As part of my job I built small tools to automate specific tasks. At the time I was using VB. Each time I had to automate a task I had to reinvent the wheel a little. The whole point of Macro Scheduler […]
Did you know that since Macro Scheduler 14.2 the Macro Recorder can store snapshots of windows and objects that you click on as you are recording? This feature makes it easier to work out which bit of code does what as you can see the screenshots inside the script: Note the thumbnail images in the […]
I am pleased to announce that we have today released Macro Scheduler 14.2 Amongst other things this new version includes the following great new features: Self Documenting Macro Recorder with snapshots of Windows/Objects being Activated/Clicked on The ability to run Python code within your macros! A native JSON Parser A native XML Parser using XPath […]
My recent newsletter with the screen-cast of the old Windows 3.1 Macro Recorder prompted the following email from long time customer, Ian. In his email he reminisces about how he originally found and used Macro Scheduler to solve a thorny problem for his employer which had previously stumped Microsoft. It’s a good story so I […]
I’ve never really worried too much about SEO for mjtnet.com. We’ve certainly never done anything black hat or spammy. All we’ve ever done really is made sure we have contextual content on the site that caters to human beings and does all the obvious things like make sure we have our important key phrases in […]
Who even remembers Windows 3.1? Yes, before Windows 95. Yes, there was a Windows before Windows 95. And it had a built in Macro Recorder. Just for fun I dug out an old copy of Windows 3.1 and installed it into a VM. Here I am recording and replaying a macro using the Windows 3.1 […]
Remember the good old days of corner shops? Long before we went to enormous super markets. The days before aisles and aisles of products that we just help ourself to? Back then you’d walk into a store and the shop keeper, who was probably the owner, would be stood behind a counter and he’d greet […]
I usually write about technical stuff here in this blog, but today I have my marketing hat on and I’m thinking about how we describe our favourite piece of software. Up in the sky, look: It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s Superman! A while ago I asked in the forums how people described Macro […]