Category: Scripting

Parsing XML with XMLParse and XPath

July 26, 2017 by Marcus Tettmar in Announcements, Scripting, Tutorials

Prompted by a recent forum post from Phil Pendlebury the other day I have written a new article on using XMLParse in the knowledge base: Parsing XML with XMLParse and XPath Hope it’s helpful. I’m sure you’ll have more questions when you start using it in anger. So when you do, be sure to head […]

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Script Development Services

June 1, 2017 by Marcus Tettmar in Announcements, Scripting

Did you know that we offer script development services? If you’re pushed for time or need a helping hand we can usually be of assistance. We often help people who don’t have the time or resource to build the automation themselves, or just want to get a jump start. What sort of things do we […]

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HTTP Request With Custom Headers using Python

November 14, 2016 by Marcus Tettmar in Scripting

As you will hopefully already know by now we added the ability to use Python code a while back in Macro Scheduler 14.2. A customer recently had a need to retrieve some data from a web service which requires some custom authentication headers to be sent with the request. It’s really easy to do this […]

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Finding Window Titles You Cannot See

September 15, 2016 by Marcus Tettmar in Automation, Scripting

Someone emailed today saying they were having problems trying to automate Internet Explorer 11 because it didn’t seem to have a window title. Actually IE11 does have a window title. Each tab has a different window title. But you don’t see the title in the main title bar of the application. By default applications show […]

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Capture Screen Text using OCR

August 5, 2016 by Marcus Tettmar in Automation, General, Scripting

Here’s a way to get screen text from any application – even from an image – using OCR and a free open source tool called Tesseract. First, you need to download and install Tesseract. You can get it here. Tesseract is a command line utility. The most basic syntax is: tesseract.exe input_image_file output_text_file So you […]

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How to Run an Access Macro from Macro Scheduler

August 4, 2016 by Marcus Tettmar in Automation, General, Scripting

Recently someone asked in the forums how to “Automatically Detect MS Office Install Location” so that they could run an Access macro. Well, there are ways to get the path of an installed Office application, but it isn’t necessary in order to run an Access macro. This is a rehash of my forum answer: You […]

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Customizing Message/Input Boxes

May 12, 2016 by Marcus Tettmar in General, Scripting

Every now and then someone asks something like “How do I change the font in a modal dialog box?” or “Can I make an Input box multi-line?”. Well, no, you can’t do those things to the standard Message/MessageModal or Input box functions. But, don’t forget that with Macro Scheduler you have the ability to create […]

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