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As much as I have enjoyed using Robo Task over the last couple of months I am discontinuing use as my trial period has expired and 100 US dollars is just too much to pay for this software. I would gladly pay 50-60 US dollars but $100 is just too much. It is a fantastic piece of software that I have ...

My suggestion would be for your file monitor to only monitor files in your specified folder with a particular extension, for example *.avi files. Then I would set a RoboTask to trigger when your video convert software is finished converting the file somehow. Do this by either starting the applicatio...

I want to be able to run a RoboTask when the computer is locked. A good habit of mine is to always lock my workstation when I walk away from it, pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del I am wondering whether I could cause a RoboTask to run when this happens. I want to be able to set my status in MSN Messenger to away...

What are the possible values that can be assigned to the Exit Code variable when using the Run Program/Open Document action?

It's been two months. Most of the issues I have raised have been resolved apparently from previous discussions but have yet to be released. The biggest issue I have is that everytime I close my laptop and it goes into standby mode that RoboTask stops running all scheduled tasks when I reopen the lap...

It would be good if you could encrypt an action or an entire RoboTask. I have many scheduled tasks to run programs that require passwords and at the moment I set a variable to store the password but this presents a security risk with the RoboTask files accessible through the file system. Is there a ...

You may notice that this RoboTask does not work correctly or as you intended but I have raised the issue in a later topic in the forum which will be fixed in RoboTask 2.1 Please refer to this topic "Variable assignment critical error" for the problem. I will make modifications to this Robo...

If you are using the Run Program/Open Document action then you should be able to select "Wait until the application exists" from the Wait Options drop-down list. Then you can use the "Assign Exit Code to Variable" option and then use an If statement to test if the exit code varia...

I have created a FileLoop action and assigned the modified time of each file in the loop to a variable CURRENT_DATETIME. Outside the loop I create a variable LATEST_DATETIME = 01/01/1890 12:00:00 that gets set inside the loop to the CURRENT_DATETIME variable only if the CURRENT_DATETIME variable is ...

;******************** ; RoboTask Task file ; Do not edit! ;******************** [Root] ActionAfterRun=INTEGER|0 Actions=FOLDER Automat=INTEGER|-1 CatID=INTEGER|802282160 ExternalName=STRING|"Task7" Hide=INTEGER|0 ID=INTEGER|782740870 Name=STRING|"Find the latest/newest modified file i...