automation

Automated scripting of SQL Server schema changes

I'm working on a project where we are updating client databases from older version to newer versions of the database and the related schema. I'm looking for a way do the following for all of the tables in the database that our program uses. If the table doesn't exist create table else for each column in the table bring the col...

what is the best way to gather data from employees inside the company?

we have about 200 employees i need to help HR to automate stuff one of the things that they need is to gather information from employees before they interview and after they become an official employee GOOGLE FORMS is one way to do it but can anyone recommend a very simple out of the box way to push forms to different employees insid...

Autoscroll implementation in a UIWebView??

Hi everyone, I have an iOS app that displays content from a sqlite db in a UIWebView (theres a reason I am using the UIWebView over say a ScrollView, and it is for some CSS). I want to add a feature to my app that will make it easier to read from. I want to have a button, that initiates an autoscroll function where the UIWebView begins t...

iis authentication username password

hi I want to write script or batch file for changing iis authentication username password. Can I do this with script or batch file? or how can I do it? I have to do it automaticly. ...

Cocoa: UI Automation frameworks

Are there any UI automation frameworks for cocoa OSX application? I dont mind changing code to fit to framework's requirements. ...

can we execute QTP script on remote machine by keeping session minimized

I have couple of machines on which I wish to schedule exceutions. I need to access these machines remotely for exceution. Whenever I start exceution from these machines and minimize the session my script fails. So just curious to know whether QTP scripts can be executed while keeping sessions minimized. If yes what changes needs to be ma...

Controlling EXISTING Internet Explorer with WIN32OLE

Most material on the net deals with spawning a separate instance of Internet Explorer with WIN32OLE. Thats all well however I'd really like to be able to control, or rather monitor an existing Internet Explorer instance. I don't need to control it directly, just check its state, i.e has the page finished loading?. Is this possible with w...

paste with delphi in ole automation

i want paste in delphi from richedit to word application i used Following code but Twice paste data in word (duplicate) WordApp := GetActiveOleObject('Word.Application'); WordApp.Visible := True; Wordapp.documents.open('C:\Doc1.docx'); Richedit.Text := 'test text'; Richedit.SelectAll; Richedit.CopyToClipboard; WordApp.Acti...

Automate Word plug-ins

We are planning to automate the different plug-ins available in a Word document. Using C#, we need to interact with textbox, buttons and other controls available in a given plug-in. Is there any way to automate this? The solution should work with both Word 2003 & 2007. ...

How do I create an automated task in Eclipse? Maybe a plugin?

Using Eclipse 3.5 (FlashBuilder), I'm doing a bit of AS3 work. With the in-house MVC framework I'm using, When I create a view - I need to make a change to quite a few files. Its a simple process but its tedious and would work absolutely fine using some sort of automation. Is there a plugin that allows me to do this? Monkey doesn't w...

Building an application to do a task periodically on a server

I'm looking for some guidance on the overall architecture of this little system I'm building. Currently, I have an app that is deployed (and updated) via xcopy to a few servers. This works well for updating the code, but it does not work well for updating the period of the code's execution, since it is setup as a windows scheduled task ...

Is there something like automatic writing or surrealist automatism in programming?

Is there something like automatic writing or surrealist automatism in programming? ...

How to move the mouse in Windows Scripting VBScript (cscript)

Hi, In the Windows scripting API is there any way to move the mouse through similar to the wshell.SendKey() function? Thanks in advance ...

How can I determine when BeforeNavigate2 will be generated by a mouse click and wait for the event?

As I've said in other questions, I'm contributing to an open-source browser automation framework (Selenium WebDriver), and having difficulty with IE. The framework uses an external process written in C++, not a Browser Helper Object (BHO). Clicks on elements are generated using Windows messages (WM_LBUTTONDOWN and WM_LBUTTONUP) rather th...

Editing .doc document using AppleScript

I am trying to batch convert some .doc files to .pdf I am pretty sure I've got the concept right, I just do not know how to reference the format to change the file format when I "Save As" set F to choose folder tell application "Finder" set P to (files of entire contents of F) repeat with I from 1 to number of items in P set this_it...

odd recording qtp

when i was creating text chepoing in qtp the recording results getting odd recording results the scanned input is and i get output like this insted of secs it display sees and i made change in text like this sees to secs but when i run the test the test result will be I captured many times but it display same as above. I do...

Automating adding sites to IIS7

I'm building some scripts for automatically setting up a developer's machine so everyone has an identical setup & configuration. One thing in particular I want to automate is the configuration in IIS7. We have a bunch of web apps which need to be hosted locally and would ideally like them all set up automatically. Does anyone know of a...

Is it possible to drive Flash app programmatically?

I was wondering if it is possible to drive Flash application programatically to provide some sort of automation for web Flash-based applications that demand user interactions? The naive approach would require taking screenshots and recognizing interactive areas based on some predefined patterns. Then we can emulate mouse clicks/keyboards...

Allowing the user pick from a list of files rather than from inputting file path in R (or other means that can pass file to R)

I have a BATCH script (on a Windows machine, would like this to be generalised in time), that opens and runs the following code in the background: library(svDialogs) library(ggplot2) library (XML) sharesID <- display(guiDlg("SciViews-R", "Please Enter Shares ID:")) test.df <- xmlToDataFrame(sharesID) test.df sapply(test.df, class) test...

Can an NUnit project load a separate *.config for each assembly that it loads?

If so, how? If not, what is the best workaround? Particularly, I'm trying to automate running unit tests in the GUI test runner on arbitrary developers' machines. ...