What format are the interactive apps? Access forms? Web forms? Something else?
If they are web-based forms, you could use cfhttp to fill them out and submit. For things that you can use batch files for, I like pycron. I've had horrid times with the built in task scheduler in windows server 2003 but for a variety of reasons I didn't want to install cygwin (needed to deploy on client machines). We tried icron but that was inconsistent and had no logging. .Pycron (written in python) seems stable so far and does at least basic logging. But yeah, what do you do for the interactive part currently? What sort of app is it? On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:02 AM, C. Hatton Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote: > We've got a large number of tasks that are currently performed by a > specific individual every week/month/quarter/year that generates an > output file of some type (Excel, PDF, MS Access) that then has to be > emailed out or reviewed. I want to try and automate these tasks but > am not sure of what tool to try to use. > > These are disk-based apps so CFSchedule isn't going to work. > > One thought is to use some windows CRON variant to fire off batch > files, however that won't work every time because some of the items > require filling out forms or clicking on buttons to execute macros. > > Any suggestions out there? > > Thanks! > Hatton > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:284051 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
