How to make Repeating work?

tomhudson · Post by **tomhudson** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 6:46 pm

I'm a beginner trying with MS (v.

and find it very user-friendly; thanks!

My first task is to try to us it to reload my web pages (to keep it on my web server cache for faster access by visitors). Hence, I try use the HTTPRequest macro, and like it very much that it does not pop up a new window when the script is running -- which instantly help me forget some other similar products I'm evaluating

The only missing piece is the ability to repeat the macro, which I failed to do so. I have 'Schedule Enabled', and under 'Run When' tab, I have all days checked, and have set 'Repeat Every' to 1 minute (for testing).

In Advanced Options, under 'When Repeating', I set 'Repeat Continuously'. and tried the various options under 'When System Restarts' but still in vain. I have also allowed Scheduler Service.

Kindly advise what I could have done wrong.

Ah... a side feedback. For the response obtained from the function, it seems that unicode is not supported. (As I used the standard example, but could not view the unicode text contents correctly.)

Thanks,
Tom

Post by **Marcus Tettmar** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 6:52 pm

"Repeat Every" needs a start time before it can start repeating. So to have it repeat every minute you need to:

1. Check each day you want it to run on
2. Enter a start time
3. Enter a repeat interval.

When the start time comes round it will start and will then repeat every minute.

There is another way - add the repeat to the script. You can make your macro loop over and over by modifying the script code like this:

Label>start
...
... your code here
...
//Wait 1 minute - change to whatever number of seconds you want (or remove for no wait)
Wait>60
//go back to start
Goto>start

Hope this helps.

tomhudson · Post by **tomhudson** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 6:23 am

Thanks for your prompt and helpful reply.

Interesting enough, everything works fine now; don't know if it is due to the machine reboot ...

I will test it more in the coming few days and if everything goes fine, you will have another happy customer! Thank you for creating this helpful tool for everyone!

Tom