Automation Workshop 8.5.0 by Febooti

Automation Workshop is a software tool for Windows that allows automating time-consuming, complex, repetitive, and recurring processes. Create automated tasks easier than ever before with no scripting, programming, or coding skills.

The program can monitor folders for content modifications, and execute various scenarios, from simple reporting to complex autonomous file operations. Automation Workshop can easily become an integral part of your automated IT infrastructure design for Microsoft Windows.

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By effectively uniting an intuitive visual interface with rich parameter specificity, this Automation tool allows designing Tasks of script-like complexity. Thus, without requiring any coding experience, you are equipped with tools capable of automatically joining normally unconnected (i.e., manually connected) processes.

Automate anywhere and everything using advanced Job Scheduler Trigger, intelligent file and remote folder watchers, or simply system startup triggers. These Triggers can be dynamically linked with 100+ workload automation Actions allowing users to create automated tasks for jobs like file and folder operations, compressing files with popular Windows or Linux archiver support, uploading or downloading files from secure FTP servers or even a cloud.

Automation Workshop includes the necessary managing, monitoring, reporting, and logging features. That allow the user to uniquely identify processes and problems and to stay informed about relevant system operations.

Awesome

• Monitor local and network folders for changes and automatically launch the appropriate Task to handle the situation in a predefined yet flexible manner.
• Automatically synchronize directories to retain exact copies of data in local folders and remote directories, such as SFTP, FTP, Amazon S3, or WebDAV.
• Advanced Task Scheduler executes jobs on a flexible schedule, including advanced recurrence patterns, configurable repetitions, and exclusions.

Secure

• Excellent industry-standard secure email capacities with SSL and STARTTLS options not only present the user with all the necessary means for sophisticated email sending but also can easily take care of automatic email distribution of any complexity.
• Securely monitor remote files and directories. New, existing, modified, deleted changes, file count and size. From anywhere via SFTP with SCP and SSH modes, FTP with Plain, Explicit and Implicit modes, Amazon S3 with access and secret keys, and WebDAV with Plain and SSL · TLS modes. To make your connection more secure, configure allowed server fingerprints and trusted CA certificates.
• Automatic zip compression and unzip extraction with multi-core processor support for efficient archive management. This enterprise-level solution easily handles archives of virtually unlimited size, Unicode characters in file names, and AES-256 encryption. As well as formats popular on Unix/Linux/BSD, such as Tar, Gzip and Bzip2.

Powerful

• A powerful set of almost 40 file operations with file and folder listing, copying, moving, renaming, deleting, content saving and retrieving, as well as remote file upload and download.
• Features powerful Start application and Run DOS command Actions. That provide the user with the means for both executing Windows command interpreter commands and connecting with almost any application already deployed within the company’s IT infrastructure.
• Designed with multi-core processors in mind, it implements Task execution strategies that allow unlimited Task parallelizing.
• Powerful error handling options allow the user to avoid or circumvent issues by running additional predefined Tasks automatically.

Realtime

• The Operations manager provides real-time data on memory use, active Triggers, executed Tasks, and service uptime. That allow you to ensure that the system is running in optimally.
• The Queue manager provides an overview of all currently running and pending Tasks.
• Take automation even further with System Startup Trigger, which automates Tasks that are executed upon either system startup or shutdown.

Smart and unattended

• Once set up, Automation Workshop runs fully unattended in the background as a Windows service without requiring to log in.
• User Logon Trigger allows monitoring the logins or logoffs of any user. Furthermore, the Tasks include an advanced Run As settings. That allows Task execution with different credentials and within different user environments.
• The application is designed with energy efficiency in mind and is perfectly suited for all platforms, from servers to laptops.

Changes in Automation Workshop 8.5.0:

New

• New filtering options to exclude folders and directories:
  • Allows extra versatile syntax—supports path wildcards—use of ? and * mask characters.
  • The multi-mask feature enables the exclusion (or inclusion) of both partial and absolute paths, allowing for unlimited local and remote locations to match user-defined parameters.
  • Supported by most Triggers and Actions…

Fixed

• File & Folder Watcher stability and consistency fixes:
  • Fixed an extremely rare Service crash in the UNC path monitoring logic (now impeccably handles incomplete/out-of-band Windows filesystem notifications).
  • Resolved an issue where, under specific circumstances, larger “Smart file operation detection cooldown” values were not providing consistent file detection results (eliminating delayed or skipped events).
• Revised interconnection highlighting (during workflow editing):
  • Fixed an issue where some variables in most Action exclude fields, specifically for excluding files and relative dates, were not considered for accentuation.
  • Resolved a problem where highlighting could be abrupt (not complete) in certain scenarios, such as when opening newer Tasks in older versions or vice versa.
• Queue Manager always refreshes the status bar smoothly, without causing any flickering.

Improved

• The new Exclude Folders feature is now supported by the following Triggers and Actions:
  • File & Folder Watcher,
  • Synchronize Folders,
  • Zip Files,
  • Copy File,
  • Move File,
  • Rename File,
  • Delete File,
  • List Files,
  • Set File Attributes,
  • Set File Date & Time.
• Remote cloud Watchers and remote file operation Actions introduce support for the Exclude Directory and Exclude File features:
  • FTP Watcher,
  • SFTP Watcher,
  • WebDAV Watcher,
  • Amazon S3 Watcher,
  • Google Storage Watcher,
  • DigitalOcean Spaces Watcher,
  • Synchronize Directories—with even more options—Include Directories and Include Files,
  • Upload File,
  • Download File,
  • List Remote File.
• Further enhanced all remote cloud Watchers (FTP, SFTP, WD, S3, GCS, and Spaces):
  • Introduces a new option to initiate the workflow only after the file is no longer being modified (aka, file is fully accessible).
  • Further networking engine optimizations allow the monitoring of remote locations with extremely large directory and file sets (e.g., 100,000+ items and beyond) using significantly less memory and greatly increased speed.
• Error reporting has been fine-tuned to precisely identify the specific path or file that caused the workflow to stop:
  • Zip Files,
  • Copy File,
  • Move File,
  • Rename File,
  • Delete File,
  • Set File Attributes,
  • Set File Date & Time.
• Enhanced Action reliability in multi-task and race-condition scenarios, where folder creation may overlap with another process creating a folder of the same name. In such cases, the workflow will seamlessly and uninterruptedly continue for the following Actions:
  • Synchronize Folders,
  • Ensure Folder,
  • Move Folder,
  • Copy File,
  • Move File.
• An extra option for the Enclosed Text Action—capture search wrappers—combined with extended search patterns, enables effortless capturing of dynamic content for seamless reuse within a workflow.
• The Separator Action adds 2 new colors—Periwinkle and Amethyst.
• Minor adjustments for the Increment Variable and Decrement Variable Actions.
• The Action editing window now features a Full Screen mode, temporarily enabling a near-fullscreen canvas and providing an effortless Task editing experience for extra-large workflows.
• Dramatic UI performance gains for Automation Workshop instances with 10,000+ Tasks.
• The streamlined filtering UI delivers a seamless user experience while adjusting the include and exclude date ranges, dynamically presenting necessary options as needed.
• Minor adjustments to the status bar in Workshop Manager, along with the Queue, Log, and Trigger Managers.
• Added help tooltips for some menus, along with subtle UI/text changes in Task Properties.
• Expanded and fine-tuned the features of Variable Wizard:
  • More control characters—form feed, backspace, escape, etc.
  • The variable “App name” of the App Information Action returns the executable’s name if the app name is not available (e.g., for a system driver process).
• Other small fixes and improvements.

Changed

• Adjusted default values for all remote cloud Watchers (for new Tasks):
  • The “Trigger only after file is no longer modified” option is now enabled.
  • Reduced the polling interval from 1 minute to 30 seconds, allowing for the same responsive file detection and ensuring file accessibility in cloud environments.
• Slightly refined the auto-detect logic of the Lookup Text Action for advanced grid row and column separators, improving accuracy in complex text parsing scenarios.
• The Create Folder Action now treats an existing target folder as a success condition, rather than reporting an error when the folder already exists.

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Supported Operating Systems:

• Windows 10, 11 (32-bit, 64-bit).
• Windows Server 2016, 2019. 2022.

Size: 38.2 MB

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