Triggers

Triggers are key in getting your tasks to run. In this tutorial, we highlight four of the most popular triggers. This video will be your guide to setting triggers and will show you how you can use triggers to get your tasks to run. Automation expert Pat Cameron gives you a tutorial on the four most popular triggers available in Automate. Here’s what you’ll learn:

• Overview of the Schedule trigger
• Overview of the File System trigger
• Overview of the Keyboard Shortcut trigger
• Overview of the Email Shortcut trigger

Watch this tutorial now to create your triggers in Automate.

Learn how to trigger a task to start when a specified process starts, ends, or stops responding. This guided tutorial helps you learn to set up a process trigger in Automate. In this video you’ll learn how to:

• Create a task to respond to a process trigger
• Add a process trigger to your task
• Set the configuration options for a process trigger

Watch this tutorial now to learn more about the process trigger.

When a Windows service fails, it often goes unnoticed. This guided tutorial shows how to get proactively notified of a service failure and automatically restart the service.

In this video you’ll learn how to:

• Create a service trigger to monitor specific service status updates
• Send an automated email to notify that service stopped
• Use a bot to restart the service

Watch this tutorial now to learn more about the service trigger.

Learn how to set up a schedule trigger to run an Automate task or workflow at a specific date and time. This guided tutorial shows how to use the schedule trigger in Automate. In this video you’ll learn how to:

• Set up the schedule trigger
• Set time and date intervals and exclusions
• Reschedule and reenable a schedule trigger

Watch this tutorial now to learn more about the schedule trigger.

Learn how to use the file trigger to start an Automate task. The file trigger starts an Automate task when a file is added, removed, renamed, or modified within a file system or folder. Automation expert Pat Cameron gives you a guided tutorial on how to use the file trigger in Automate. In this video you’ll learn how to:

• Choose the folder and subfolders to monitor
• View options at the file or folder level
• Create and use variables
• Run the trigger
• Make sure your file trigger is working

Watch this tutorial now to learn more about the file trigger.

Learn how to use an email to trigger an Automate task. Automation expert Pat Cameron gives you a guided tutorial on how to use the email trigger in Automate. In this video you’ll learn how to:

• Select the email trigger settings
• Set up filters for your email trigger
• Run a test to ensure your email trigger is running

Watch this tutorial now to learn more about the email trigger.

Learn how to trigger an Automate task when a specific operation is performed on an SQL or Oracle database. This guided tutorial shows how to use the database trigger in Automate. In this video you’ll learn how to:

• Configure the database trigger settings and enable notifications
• Test the database trigger connection
• Fill out prerequisites for what to track
• Apply the database trigger to your task

Watch this tutorial now to learn more about the database trigger.

Learn how to trigger a specific task upon startup of Automate. Automation expert Pat Cameron gives you a guided tutorial on setting up a startup trigger in Automate. In this video you’ll learn how to:

• Start a task to run reports, start an application, or any other process that needs to be done as soon as you log in to your workstation
• Set a trigger to begin a task upon startup of Automate when any user logs on, or when a specific user logs on

Watch this tutorial now to learn more about the startup trigger.

Learn how to set up a window trigger that can trigger a task based on a window opening, closing, or becoming focused or not. Automation expert Pat Cameron walks you through the basics of the window trigger. In this video you’ll learn how to:

• Select the window and have Automate bring in the attributes of the window to monitor
• Determine the objects in a window that can be monitored
• Trigger recovery tasks or trigger a task to notify a system administrator based on the actions of a certain window

Watch this tutorial now to learn more about the window trigger.

Learn how to use the keyboard trigger to monitor for specific keystrokes, such as hotkey or autokey combinations, to initiate a task or workflow. Automation expert Brigette Matz will show you the different ways to set up a keyboard trigger. In this video you’ll learn how to:

• Set up and configure a hotkey combination keyboard trigger
• Set up and configure an autokey combination keyboard trigger
• Specify if the keyboard trigger combination is still active in any application or just within Automate

Watch this tutorial now to learn more about the keyboard trigger.

Learn how to use the event log trigger to make Automate act in response to application or system generated errors, warnings, successes, or failures sent to the event log. Automation expert Brigette Matz will show you how to set up an event log trigger. In this video you’ll learn how to:

• Add an event log trigger to a task
• Select the type of event log to monitor
• Set how Automate should respond when triggered

Watch this tutorial now to learn more about the event log trigger.