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Macro Scheduler 14.4 Released
I’m pleased to announce that Macro Scheduler 14.4 is now available. Macro Scheduler 14.4 brings you some cool new Screen OCR functions with a handy little Screen OCR wizard to go with them. We’ve also...
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Case Study: Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB)
Customer Profile The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) in London is a leading source of information on sight loss and the issues affecting blind and partially sighted people. Practical...
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What is Robotic Process Automation (RPA)?
Our longstanding customers will know we’ve never really been into jargon here at MJT. Jargon in the IT industry tends to come and go. And there’s something quite amusing about a term that pops up and...
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Macro Scheduler 14.4.02 Available
Macro Scheduler 14.4.02 maintenance release is now available for download from the usual places. For details of changes please see the history list here. Registered Updates | Trial Downloads | New...
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Sending Email via Office 365
We’ve had a few questions lately about how to send email using the SMTPSendMail function via the Office 365 SMTP server. Until Macro Scheduler 14.4.02 which we have released today this wasn’t possible...
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Happy New Year – Welcome to 2018!
Just a quick note to say Happy New Year to all our customers. This year will be our 21st year of selling Macro Scheduler. I think that’s pretty amazing. Thanks for all your support over the years and...
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Macro Scheduler 14.4.05 Update Available
Macro Scheduler 14.4.05 maintenance release is now available for download from the usual places. For details of changes please see the history list here. Registered Updates | Trial Downloads | New...
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Macro Scheduler 14.4.07 – Improved HTTPS Support
We have today made Macro Scheduler build 14.4.07 available. This release effects only the HTTPRequest function when using SSL. It addresses an issue where some sites that used SNI (Server Name...
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Saving You Time and Money With Robotic Process Automation
Before Macro Scheduler existed I was a junior member of an IT department. As part of my job I built small tools to automate specific tasks. At the time I was using VB. Each time I had to automate a...
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Screen Scraping with Macro Scheduler [Update]
This is an update of an earlier article to reflect the fact that as of version 14.4 Macro Scheduler now has built in Screen OCR functions. What is Screen Scraping? Screen Scraping is a term used to...
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Will robotic process automation take your job away?
TLDR: No! That’s not what we’re here for. We often get called in to help a company automate a process. Many times this involves automating something that an end-user does. To make macros that make...
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Escaping File Paths in HTTP Requests
If you ever need to send a path as a URL parameter in an HTTP request, be sure to “escape” it to avoid the path delimiters (“\” symbols) being seen as delimiters in the URL path. E.g. let’s say you...
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Get Date of Last Monday
Someone asked me the other day how to get the date of the most recent Monday. I came up with two solutions. Get Date of Last Monday with VBScript This version works by looping the date backwards one...
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Running Powershell Code From Inside Your Macros
A while back I wrote this blog post which shows you how you can have a PowerShell script run Macro Scheduler commands via the MacroScript SDK. However, what if you want to do it the other way around...
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Macro Scheduler 14.4.08 Available
Macro Scheduler maintenance build 14.4.08 is now available for download from the usual places: Registered Downloads/Upgrades | Trial Versions | New Licenses | Version History This version introduces a...
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Macro Scheduler Subscriptions from only 12.50/month
Did you know we offer monthly, quarterly or yearly subscriptions for Macro Scheduler Standard? These subscriptions have no minimum term, so can work out very cost effective if you only need the product...
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Macro Scheduler Discounts for Students, Charities and Not-for-Profits
Students If you are a student and want to use Macro Scheduler for your studies, please contact us with details and if everything checks out we will give you a 40% discount coupon. Charities and...
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Nice Customer Testimonial
Just had this testimonial from a recent customer and had to share it with you: “Just wanted to take some time to say thank you for helping us out on this project at such short notice. We’d sunk quite...
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Cross Language 128 and 256 Bit AES Encryption
With Macro Scheduler 14.4.10 we have added new 128 and 256 bit AES Encryption methods which interoperate well with other languages. Cross-platform/cross-language encryption/decryption can be tricky....
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Macro Scheduler 14.5 Available
Macro Scheduler build 14.5 is now available for download from the usual places: Registered Downloads/Upgrades | Trial Versions | New Licenses | Version History This version adds an improved JSONParse...
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