Actions and macros according to the schedule

Our client had to export his database for the following back-up at certain time. At 3 a.m. every day, when the load is minimal, it is necessary to launch the application and export the database. The problem was that the application of a database supported export of data only from GUI interface. What are we supposed to do if it is necessary to execute certain actions with the interface at the time set? How can you copy a new portion of clips to your mobile iPod while having breakfast, absolutely automatically and without your participation?

We suggest taking advantage of Apis Ceratina - Macro Scheduler Use Case. You can record macro and make a schedule. Apis ceratina allows to carry out the recorded actions every year, month, day, week, hour, once at the time set, when it is necessary for you. With apis ceratina you can automatically send and receive mail. You can update or do a backup copy of a site on ftp server every night. All this can be done according to the schedule and without any of your participation.

See also: Stimulating Productivity

Macro

Macro is a recorded sequence of your actions performed with a mouse or a keyboard. Any mouse or keyboard clicks, choices of menu items, ways of filling-in the forms and dialogues in any of Windows programs or Internet-pages can be associated with macro.

A bright example of good macro is an automated inserting of a company logo into an image file. First, you choose the menu item "file"-> "open", then you choose the file and open it. After that you insert your company logo, save the file and close it. This is a sequence of actions, if you record it, it is called macro. Having recorded this sequence of actions, you can reproduce it once to process one file or 1000 times to process 1000 files, or 1 000 000 times to process 1 000 000 files quickly. Just imagine how much time you would spend on inserting the company logo into 1000 000 file images. Obviously it would take you longer than a day.

Macros are very useful for automation of repetitive and tiresome work. You don’t have to carry out the same actions again and again. It is enough to show what must be done once and Apis Ceratina will make the boring job for you. You can just relax and observe, or go and drink a cup of coffee.

With macros you can automatically answer to sample e-mail letters, an action which is just very important for support, you can automatically visit your favorite web-resources and Internet-pages, as well as carry out reserve data copying according to the schedule even if initially the software wasn't able to support any scheduled actions. You can record macro of data copying from one Windows program or web-form into the other one. It is also possible to fill automatically the data into the fields in any application or dialogue. The main purpose of macros is to prevent you from repeating the same actions many times.

See also: Actions and macros according to the schedule

Filling in the forms. Are you still filling in the forms and dialogues by hand?

One of our clients has to take his customers’ orders. The problem is that the information in these orders is 95 % the same. The application, in which they fill all the order forms in, does not support any automation. So he had to fill in about 30 fields of the same form again and again day by day. However, the data basically, except for a surname and a name, were identical.

Solution to this problem turned out to be very simple. With Apis Ceratina our client recorded 95% of his repetitive orders into 10 different macros. Now he can just fill in the name and the surname and click the Proceed button. After that he can get back to communicating with his client. The order doesn’t take 5 minutes anymore, now it takes 20 seconds to enter individual data, other fields are filled in automatically.

Automated filling-in of any forms and dialogues is possible in any Windows applications, in absolutely any program. With Apis Ceratina it’s quickly and simply. It is possible to fill in forms having 50 fields in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari with a one mouse click!

See also: Macro is a recorded sequence of your actions

Mouse automation. Robo Mouse

Unfortunately standard Windows devices don’t allow automating mouse work. According to the statistics every day a mouse passes a 2 mile-distance along your work-desk. Often it’s just a routine.

If to you don’t need to repeat the same operations with a mouse or a keyboard 10 times a day, you can use Apis Ceratina - Robo Mouse. Apis Ceratina gives an opportunity to show your actions to a computer once, and then reproduce them. Having recorded all your movements once, you can perform them by a mouse or a button click or simply every day at certain time – according to the schedule.

Apis Ceratina does not simply repeat the record – it remembers what buttons were pressed, what menu items were chosen. It allows not only activate your mouse, but reproduce the exact actions you recorded, easy, quickly and without any mistakes.

See also: Filling in the forms

Command prompt-operated Interface Automation

A command prompt in Windows operating system gives a wide range of opportunities for automation of processes, applications and tasks. However, a problem appears if you need to click a few buttons, when GUI(Graphic User Interface) has already been launched. A command prompt does not give us an opportunity to press buttons or to carry out any actions with elements of the user interface in GUI application.

This problem can also be solved by Apis Ceratina. By means of the convenient interface you can record the macro you need, which will describe the necessary actions with the elements of the user interface, and later you can prompt for it by name from the Windows command prompt quickly and conveniently. It is possible to prompt for the whole sequences of operations with the interface from the command prompt, not only in one application, but also in several ones. It applies, for example, to filling in the dialogues and forms, changing adjustments, choice of any menu items, data input, opening of files, and copying of fields.

A distinctive feature of Apis Ceratina is a technology of intellectual reproduction, which gives an opportunity to forget about mistakes like clicking the wrong buttons. Apis Ceratina does not simply click the screen; it clicks those buttons and chooses those menu items which were shown during recording.

See also: Robo Mouse - mouse automation

Automation of Windows applications

We have made a survey, trying to find out, who and in what way uses Apis Ceratina. A woman who has been working in an Internet cafe and has always been copying photographs to CD-ROM was performing a lot of similar actions. She looked tired because of this monotonous donkey work. Another client wanted to update several web-sites by copying files to the server. Everything could be all right, however there were a lot of web-sites, so it is very tiresome to make it by hand. One of our customers also wanted to update about 10 000 photographs. A company logo was to be added in each of the photo. That was an absolutely monotonous, repetitive and wearing job. Where is the decision to this problem? How can we help these people to perform their work faster?

How do we do what we do for more people, working faster, spending less time on it and earning more money? Macros can help us to achieve this aim. There was so much software produced by Windows and only 1-2% of it has been equipped with Macro system.

What do we do with those applications where there were no macros initially or if you want to have macro in two applications simultaneously? You will tell me that there are no or there are few such applications and nobody uses them. In electronic engineering Workbench packages are used, in radiotechnics - Orcad, Workbench, Serenade, Mathcad, Microwave office packages.

Using apis ceratina you can record macro absolutely in any windows application, or in several applications simultaneously. You don’t have to know any programming languages to do so. Apis Ceratina’s advantage is that it can analyze the actions of the user, i.e. apis understands that you click this or that button, menu item or list, instead of simply clicking the screen. It allows to reproduce your actions accurately and without any mistakes. Everything will be executed with accuracy if you move or change the sizes of windows and even if you move or add icons and menu items, when, for example, creating new files or folders, or when you simply move an icon to a new place on a desktop.

See also: Command prompt-operated Interface Automation

Got tired of routine? Let's get rid of computer routine.

A person tired of routine doesn't accept and doesn't generate any new ideas. Because of routine and repetitive tasks people become more irritable. Having drowned in routine, you think that it’s not you who owns your life; it’s your life that owns you. Concentration of your attention is lowering, interest to everything happening in your life is decreasing, and as a result we live our own life at half strength. For many people it is a full contrast to freedom. Even the best managers under the influence of routine start to perform badly in due course.

When working at a computer there is an opportunity to get rid of routine simply and quickly. Automation and macros help us to avoid performing repetitive tasks while working with a computer. Apis Ceratina is an automation program, the program that allows people unfamiliar with programming to create macros. Just show what you want to do by one mouse click - Apis Ceratina will make the rest for you.

See also: Automation of Windows applications

Stimulating Productivity

While working people do a lot of similar actions, repeatedly clicking the same buttons; we constantly write the same sentences, filling in these or those forms.

We asked a small web-design company to record all actions they perform. On looking through these steps we were extremely surprised on how many sample repetitions people do. After analyzing these materials we drew up a conclusion that it took 40% of their time to perform the actions that could have been performed instantly. They had better have some rest during that time instead of 30 times a day getting into the wilds of submenu, using 10 clicks, and changing line thickness, color and type. Moreover, sometimes they made mistakes or were searching for this or that item. Further we were perplexed by the fact that that the designer was creating new files with sizes varying from 230x230 to 400x400 dots. Each time it was necessary to open file creation window, type in the sizes, type of color, dots per inch etc. There were plenty of such examples in every person’s work. All these actions could actually be performed by clicking a button once.

Apis Ceratina is a solution of this problem, as well as of the similar ones. Any menu item, any button or sequence of actions made with a mouse or with a keyboard can be recorded as a hot key or as an Apis menu item. With Apis Ceratina you can record macro once and then, firstly, use it almost instantly, and, secondly, use it as many times as you want. Associating all your routine actions with hot keys or with Apis menu items, you will improve your productivity and get rid of computer routine.

See also: Let’s get rid of computer routine

Press Contact:
Vlad Marchenko
MavrSoft
CEO/Founder
help@mavrsoft.com
+7 921 575 1546

Automate Repetitive Tasks to a Single Click or a Keystroke

St. Petersburg, Russia. – May 28, 2007: MavrSoft has announced the immediate availability of Apis Ceratina 2.0, the newest major update of a popular macro recorder, enabling users to record a series of operations and replay the recorded sequence with one keystroke. The program is ideal as a tool to auto fill various forms and dialogs, auto log in to webmail or websites.

The best in Apis Ceratina is its total simplicity. To record an automation, users are not required to know a programming language or learn a complicated automation interface. Instead there is a graphical wizard that will let users show a sequence of actions for the program to record it and then replay on demand or automatically at any scheduled time. The program will recognize and monitor even such activities as creating and showing windows and drop-down menus, as well as starting applications. It will also monitor the position of the window on the desktop.

Let’s say, for example, you have a Yahoo Mail account and would like to automate your login operations so that instead of several clicks and typing, you can press just one button and get all login operations done automatically. You start Apis Ceratina, click ‘Record’ and show the program what operations it should take to get things done. There is no scripting involved! Once the macro is recorded, you can get your Yahoo username and password filled in almost hands down except for one keystroke or a mouse click on the appropriate item in the Apis drop-down menu or a shortcut to the macro located in Start menu, Quick Launch panel or on the desktop.

The program can be used for a great range of other tasks. For example, you can get it to fill out repetitive parts of business forms, dialog boxes in Windows applications, copy a currently playing song to a mobile device, generate reports, rename a group of files, or perform a cross application macro. The program’s use is limited only by your imagination.

Pricing and Availability
Apis Ceratina 2.0 runs under Windows Vista, XP, 2000, 2003, MCE and costs $29.95 (US) for a single-user license. Discounts for volume buyers are available. Registered users are entitled to free minor upgrades and premium technical support. Additional information on the product, as well as its free evaluation copy is available from http://www.mavrsoft.com.

MavrSoft
MavrSoft is a St. Petersburg, Russia technology company, specializing in macro technologies, custom software development and project consulting. One of the MavrSoft’s premium products is Apis Ceratina, which has been adopted by many home and business users worldwide. For more information about the company and its products, please visit www.mavrsoft.com.

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NOTE TO EDITORS: Please, let us know if you have questions or would like any additional information on Apis Ceratina 2.0. Contact Vlad Marchenko at help@mavrsoft.com for more information. A free registration key for review purposes is available upon request.

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