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Automation Software?

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Syringer

Lifer
What we need is a solution to automate a lot of tasks which include:

-d/ling files from HTTP pages
-running MS Access + Excel files
-deleting/renaming certain files

Among others, and need them to be done on a daily basis. I've tried Automize 8 which worked for a while but the interface is terrible. Does anyone have any alternatives?
 
Well, the best easy to use yet highly capable software is probably Automate, but its priced these days ridiculously high, mainly for corporate users. I got my licenses a while ago when it was cheaper and I've become completely dependent on it to do a ton of various things during work.
 
Syringer said:
-deleting/renaming certain files
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This may be the toughest. What are the rules for the deletion/renaming? Personally, I'd just use Perl for this. To delete, use "unlink".

Syringer said:
-d/ling files from HTTP pages
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You can use Perl for this (LWP::Simple). Or you can use WGet.

Syringer said:
-running MS Access + Excel files
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I'd use VBA for stuff within Microsoft products. That's what they put it there for. 🙂

Anything else you need automated?
 
You could use VBA at least the last two. I am pretty sure that you could use VBA for downloading the files also.

File renaming/deletion is very easy in VBA.
 
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