The only thing I can't do so easily with winAutomation is select web page elements apart from that winAutomationis is over all a far superior product, and can also control ubot applications and yes I do own both products

Any evidence to support bolded statement? Or is this just your personal opinion? If the latter what features or differences make you feel this way?

Thanks..

I would love to hear some ones thoughts on this

You asked the question sounds like you did not like the reply

Any evidence to support bolded statement?

Too much to detail as the products are far from similar, winAutomation is capable of more than merely web page manipulation simply reading the forum would tell you that.

I actually had no problem at all with your reply. I was just wondering about some of the things that it could do and if they fit my specific needs or not. Most of the things that I need to do involve browser manipulation.

I was also wondering if winautomation was to advanced of a tool for me as far as the learning curve is concerned. I have dowloaded the free trial though so I guess that some of these questions I will just have to answer on my own.

Thanks for your reply though. Could you possibly direct to to a good source of training videos to get me started? I have seen the few on this site but they don't go into any detail at all so ithat would be very helpful.

Thanks...

Gary..

You might want to check the comment here. It seems to be from a user of various automation applications (including ubot). If I had to give a personal opinion on the subject I would say the following:

- Ubot does specific things and is far easier to setup for these specific things
- Ubot specializes in a few things and gives you a higher level approach to the specific functionality that it provides
- WinAutomation is an automation suite that allows you to automate any task that can be automated
- WinAutomation has a learning curve
- WinAutomation will allow you to send emails, connect to FTP, fill forms, manipulate files etc etc and also give you all the tools that will allow you to glue other tools together 
- WinAutomation gives you a very sophisticated Exception handling system and trigger system that practically gives you the power to automate any task that does not require human logic

If I had to give some analogies for WinAutomation and Ubot relationship in other software categories:

In image manipulation:
Photoshop -> WinAutomation
Microsoft Paint -> Ubot

In CMS:
Blogger -> Ubot
Drupal -> WinAutomation

In video manipulation:
Windows Movie Maker -> Ubot
Adobe Premiere -> WinAutomation

I think that you are getting the point. Even though Photoshop is far more difficult to learn and master than microsoft paint, it gives you insanely more features to play with. However, if you just want to do simple, specific things, Microsoft Paint could suit your needs just fine.

You'll probably not find anothe person around that has as intimate an understanding of these software tools.

The short answer is that each product has its strengths and weaknesses when it comes to ease of understanding, community, customer support, functionality etc.

Since I keep getting this asked, I'll probably do a full on blog review of both - no holds barred. Will let you know when I do....

Hi
I have both and I am not a programmer, more of a marketer trying to improve productivity.  Here are some thoughts:

Firstly they are different products.  Ubot is good for grabbing bits of a web page and scrapping and clicking etc.  I don't particularly like the macro recorder approach to working with web pages, Ubot's approach is better.  However winautomation doesn't have that particular focus but it has a much wider reach of functionality and interacts with a wide range of software that Ubot doesn't come anywhere near.

Secondly I much prefer the WA interface. Ubot feels clutered and a bit amateur by comparison (e.g. when you stretch the parameter forms they turn into a bit of a mess).  For this reason alone I wish WA could do the stuff that Ubot does - I would drop Ubot if that were the case.

I have started to get the hang of using both by running a Ubot job within WA (if you use the '/auto' parameter you won't need to click the Ubot start button and the Ubot will also close itself after completing the job).  This is good for running Ubots at pre-set times (although you could do the same with Windows scheduler).  WA will take some data from a Ubot job and manipulate it and store it in for example Excel.  I think Ubot works only with CSV and text files.

WA falls down a bit on its support.  Ubot has by far superior range of video tutorials.

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