Febooti Automation Workshop basic & advanced tutorials

Automation Workshop tutorial section contains growing base of articles with screenshots on creating goal oriented tasks. Depending on the level of complexity, tutorials are divided in basic and advanced categories. While basic tutorials show how to make the first steps in program to create tasks with easy structure, advanced section features more complicated tasks as examples for creatively building automated task solutions.

Automation · Getting started:

• Download, install and use Windows Automation Workshop.
• Getting started.

Automation · Folder monitoring:

• Watch files using File Watcher and send as email attachments.
• Watch folder and trigger Copy files Action on file change.
• Monitor folder and show message on folder change.
• Use directory watcher to audit deleted files.
• File / folder watcher screenshots.

Automation · Step-by-step tutorials:

• Simple batch file replacement - Send email with all jpg files.
• Automatically move files from Folder to Backup.
• Send email and automatically delete or move files.
• Automatically delete temp files.
• Automatically delete files older than 30 days.
• Copy file screenshots.

Automation · Compression:

• Zip files automatically to different daily archives.
• Unzip files automatically to convert archive tar.gz to zip.

Automation · User logon / logoff:

• Automatically track users logon history.
• Log and email Windows user login history.

Automation · Quick tutorials:

• Monitor folder and automatically send email with report files.
• Send email with PDF file and move it to other folder.
• Send email with automatically detected IP address.

Automation Workshop · Explained:

• Task's state explained.
• Run As settings explained.
• Advanced Task Scheduler explained.
• Log Manager explained.
• Variable Wizard explained.
• Backup & Restore explained.
  • Automatic / manual backup explained.
  • Restore functionality explained.

Troubleshooting · Examples:

• SMTP server configuration in email clients.
• Test SMTP connection / send test email.
• Monitor connection to a remote server, and trigger alarm.
• Use Task Scheduler to ping server and automatically send email reports.
• Script examples · (JScript, VBScript, PowerShell, Batch file).
• Common exit codes & errorlevels.
• Interactive date / time filter.

The section contains a growing set of tutorials that are being added upon expansion of Automation Workshop capabilities. If you do not find a tutorial that could efficiently help to build some automated Tasks, do not hesitate to request tutorial.

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