{"id":111,"date":"2006-08-04T12:41:23","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T12:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/04\/what-do-people-use-macro-scheduler-for\/"},"modified":"2006-08-04T12:41:23","modified_gmt":"2006-08-04T12:41:23","slug":"what-do-people-use-macro-scheduler-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/04\/what-do-people-use-macro-scheduler-for\/","title":{"rendered":"What do people use Macro Scheduler for?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always fascinating and useful to find out how other people use <a href=\"\/macro_scheduler.htm\">Macro Scheduler<\/a>.  As you probably know I frequently post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/category\/success-stories\/\">Success Stories<\/a> here on this blog.  There&#8217;s also a really <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/usergroup\/viewtopic.php?t=17\">interesting topic<\/a> on the forums, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/usergroup\/viewtopic.php?t=17\">here<\/a>, where people can post information about how Macro Scheduler helps them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just scanned through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/usergroup\/viewtopic.php?t=17\">forum post<\/a> and made a short list summarising some of the ways people are using Macro Scheduler:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creating an Automated Ticketing System<\/li>\n<li>Caption Competition Tool<\/li>\n<li>Automated backups and file management<\/li>\n<li>Anti-phishing Tool<\/li>\n<li>Automated admin tasks and unlocking files<\/li>\n<li>Backing up a MySQL database<\/li>\n<li>Transferring data from Oracle to UPS Worldship<\/li>\n<li>Automating an ERP Shipping System<\/li>\n<li>Order email retrieval, parse and input to ERP system<\/li>\n<li>Automation of e-commerce tasks<\/li>\n<li>Automated report writing<\/li>\n<li>EDI Scheduling<\/li>\n<li>Integrating Word and Excel macros<\/li>\n<li>Harvesting data from websites<\/li>\n<li>Stress and load testing ERP software<\/li>\n<li>Automated provisioning system for a telecommunications company<\/li>\n<li>To automatically broadcast and archive daily conference calls<\/li>\n<li>Retrieval from corporate databases and report production where no ad-hoc reporting tool exists.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;entering data where there are multiple steps over a number of pages &#038; especially where the application does not have keyboard command options. I load the data into a xls, then MS will enter the data quickly &#038; accurately.&#8221;<\/ul>\n<p>Read more, or post your own experiences here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/usergroup\/viewtopic.php?t=17\">Tell us how Macro Scheduler helps you, what you use it for.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/category\/success-stories\/\">Macro Scheduler Success Story<\/a> and would like to see it included on this blog please <a href=\"\/contact.htm\">contact me<\/a>.  At the end of the year we will choose our favourite story and the winner will receive $100 worth of Amazon Vouchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always fascinating and useful to find out how other people use Macro Scheduler. As you probably know I frequently post Success Stories here on this blog. There&#8217;s also a really interesting topic on the forums, here, where people can post information about how Macro Scheduler helps them. I&#8217;ve just scanned through the forum post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}