Another maintenance release has been carefully cooked and is ready to serve! As always, maintenance releases (the ones where only the third number of the version is increased) are free upgrades for licensed users and only contain minor improvements and bug fixes.
Those of you who have moved to WinAutomation version 4, have already experienced the features related to Web Automation. WinAutomation has now dedicated actions for navigating the web, filling web forms and extracting data from web pages in the most natural way.
It is well known, that different machines work at different speeds, and come up with the same results after a process request, while the process result is the same.
When using WinAutomation to automate tasks, you should be able to determine how long you will allow for a process to run, before it fails.
This is where the "Wait" group of actions come in handy.
In the previous blog we created a job that would read an Excel File and use the information stored to login to the FTP server of a list of websites in order to upload the update files of a CMS site.
How about adding a few bits and pieces to make this Job provide us a with a log of the updates made so that we can keep track of our updates.
I think this Job is a must for any web designer who uses Joomla, Drupal or any other CMS (Content Management Systems) that needs to be updated every so often!
Imagine having 10 websites that you are in charge of and you need to keep them up-to-date with any latest security –and not only- patches…Even just 5 would still be too many to handle..
What do you do? Spend a week updating them all manually?