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Using Automate to Perform Desktop Interactions

Automate includes numerous interactivity related actions that can impersonate any mouse or keyboard activity as well as virtually any form of desktop interactions performed manually. This article will describe some of the more commonly used Interactivity actions and how they are used to navigate and interact with interfaces as well as supply possible solutions to some frequent interactivity and navigation related problems.
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Automate BPA Server Agent Deployment

Automate BPA Server works hand-in-hand with Automate Agents in order to execute workflows and perform tasks across a network environment. The Agent's main purpose is to perform triggering, workflow, and task execution, either locally or on a remote machine.
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Automate 10 Public Beta Now Available for Download

Dear Automate Users, Since 2004, Network Automation has been innovating the automation software space. In the process we created a new category called Business Process Automation (BPA). This important category integrates the best of IT Process Automation and Application Integration into a single platform helping to bring IT and business users into closer alignment. Now today, after nearly two...
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New Updates for Automate 10 Now Available

Version 10.4 is now available and addresses various issues that were introduced in previous versions. It has more than 150 corrections. This release also includes the Dataset to CSV activity which adds the ability to output a dataset to a .csv file. You can find a complete list of the fixes below. This is a recommended update for all of our Automate...
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Using Automate to Facilitate SQL Bulk Inserts

Can Automate interact with databases? Yes. Can Automate interact/manipulate files? Yes.   With these two questions answered, the inevitable question is next: If Automate can do both of these things, can it also load the content of files into SQL? This question comes up quite often during our consultation calls, so let’s skip the phone call and...
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OCR & Active Directory Automation

In this blog post we will go over how to integrate OCR automation with Active Directory automation for a new hire’s application. We will explore reading a name, address and telephone number from an application image, and creating an Active Directory User with AutoMate’s OCR, Active Directory, Loop and Flow Control Actions.
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Beta 3 Now Available; with 64-Bit Support

Text We recently released 10.0.0.35 Beta 3, which is now available for download. There are two new features included in this release: 64-Bit Support: The Beta 3 release comes with four installers: Automate 10 x86, Automate 10 x64, Automate BPA Server 10 x86 and...
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Automate & Automate BPA Server 9.0.3 Release

Version 9.0.3 of both Automate and Automate BPA Server has just been released. Version 9.0.3 addresses 44 issues, including various action enhancements and issues that were introduced in 9.0.0, 9.0.1, and 9.0.2. With each release, however minor, we want to continue our efforts to deliver a more stable software to our customers. /blog/automate-automate-bpa-server-903-release
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Automate VMware - Automate 8 Tour: Part 2

Text   The Benefits of Virtualization Virtualization is one of the hottest trends in I.T. today. Virtualization has valuable applications for controlling hardware costs, minimizing downtime, and many quality assurance...
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Service Corp Company Benefits From Automation

"Automate Schedule's audit log is crucial to us because one of our SOX controls is to validate that we keep schedule logs for a certain period of time. An audit log is critical for a scheduler."
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Automating Terminal Emulation

This month’s sample task demonstrates how to use the Automate Terminal Emulation Actions to interact with a terminal system and import the data from the system into a file.