RoboTask forum

You need a login command.  If you cannot run this type of action under a service, you need some other way of attaining some kind of security by having the computer log itself on and off.   It seems unsafe to have an open server or workstation sitting around running a periodic unattended task.  Unles...

I have managed to get the green icon to stay in the system tray when I log back in again, I do not know how. I already understood the difference between the green and blue icons and how to starrt the two different versions. Is there a "login" command like there is a "logout" comm...

I setup the task and a time two minutes into the future for the task to run in a Windows Desktop connection to the Windows Server.  I then logged out of the server.  After the time passed the task should have been completed in, I used Windows Desktop to log back into the server and found the Dos app...

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Operating System - Windows Server 2003

Operating System - Windows XP DOS Application - Dataease Bypassing Login Screen of DataEase - To my knowledge you cannot bypass the login screen.  If you are sending keystrokes to the program why would bypassing this screen provide any benefit? It runs in a commmand window.  Would changing the prope...

I am running a DOS app as a service and am running into two problems.  The first is when the computer is logged off and the task runs, the dos app only gets to the dos app login screen and stops.  The balance of the task executes however.  It does work when the user is logged on. The second problem ...

The program being automated is a DOS program and the command prompt and the program does not support UNC paths.  If there is no way around this I will have to run it locally on the server.
Thanks for the info login I will make sure I check after I get everything else installed.

I have set Robotask to run as a sevice and imported the task I created with the non service version.  The task requires a program be run and files be moved and renamed on mapped network drives, but Robotask as a service cannot see the mapped drives with the non service version can see the mapped dr...