Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
At MJT Net we’ve been helping people automate Windows applications for more than 25 years with Macro Scheduler. Thousands of users have built their own scripts to save time, eliminate repetitive tasks, and connect systems that otherwise don’t talk to each other. But did you know we also offer done-for-you automation services? We understand that not […]
Announcing the Macro Scheduler WebRecorder Chrome Extension. Old timers will remember the WebRecorder. Well it’s back. Kinda. What is it? A Chrome browser extension that records user interactions on web pages and generates Macro Scheduler automation scripts with Chrome WebDriver commands. Beta Installation Instructions Download here: https://www.mjtnet.com/software/macro-scheduler-extension-1-5-7.zip Since this extension is in beta testing and […]
The new Chrome and Edge functions in Macro Scheduler 15 make it possible to locate frames and iframes and then manipulate elements within them. Switching Frames The ChromeSwitchFrame and EdgeSwitchFrame functions allow you to specify a frame or iframe element, by index or element reference, to switch the “browsing context” to. What this means is […]
Macro Scheduler 15 now has native Chrome and Edge functions. You may be wondering how they work. There are a couple of sample scripts included with v15 but if you’re not sure how to get things set up or how to identify elements in the page this article is for you. I wanted an example […]
I often end up working on Macro Scheduler code that is hard to read because of a lack of indentation. Sometimes this is simply because the code has been chopped and changed so many times it’s become a bit messy and needs a bit of a clean up. And I’m not pointing fingers here either […]
With Macro Scheduler 14.4.10 we have added new 128 and 256 bit AES Encryption methods which interoperate well with other languages. Cross-platform/cross-language encryption/decryption can be tricky. Different text encodings, different padding formats and understanding how different algorithms derive keys and initialisation vectors can make encrypting and decrypting between one language and another a bit of […]
A while back I wrote this blog post which shows you how you can have a PowerShell script run Macro Scheduler commands via the MacroScript SDK. However, what if you want to do it the other way around and run PowerShell code from inside a Macro Scheduler macro instead? One way would simply be to […]
Someone asked me the other day how to get the date of the most recent Monday. I came up with two solutions. Get Date of Last Monday with VBScript This version works by looping the date backwards one day at a time until the weekday of that date is a Monday. //Put this VBSTART … […]
We’ve had a few questions lately about how to send email using the SMTPSendMail function via the Office 365 SMTP server. Until Macro Scheduler 14.4.02 which we have released today this wasn’t possible as explicit TLS was required and SMTPSendMail did not support it. We have now added this. So as long as you have […]
Did you know you can use Regular Expressions inside any of Macro Scheduler‘s window functions (e.g. SetFocus, WaitWindowOpen, WaitWindowClosed) so that you can match a window title using RegEx? As an example someone recently asked us how they would match a window from an old piece of software where the window title was always the […]