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Automated report scheduling (autoit - scheduled_tasks)
Huysmans
Member Posts: 13
I'm working on automating several aspects of Navision system maintenance. The work is progressing nicely. However I'm having serious trouble getting a navision client started using ScheduledTasks.
In the past we have been using the tools from ExpandIt. These are just not flexible enough. So after some research I discovered AutoIt v3. This nice, well documented scripting language enables me to do anything I want.
So I now have several scripts which can be used to control some batch processing. These all work flawlessly when started from within explorer or a command window. However they won't function when initiated from the ScheduledTasks (Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]).
Any one, any idea? I've been struggling to find out what goes wrong but the only thing I can detect is that the Navision client will be started but seems to hang shortly after that. Could this be caused by lack of a controlling tty? (still having difficulty to forget my UNIX background
)
Any suggestions to solve this riddle?
In the past we have been using the tools from ExpandIt. These are just not flexible enough. So after some research I discovered AutoIt v3. This nice, well documented scripting language enables me to do anything I want.
So I now have several scripts which can be used to control some batch processing. These all work flawlessly when started from within explorer or a command window. However they won't function when initiated from the ScheduledTasks (Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]).
Any one, any idea? I've been struggling to find out what goes wrong but the only thing I can detect is that the Navision client will be started but seems to hang shortly after that. Could this be caused by lack of a controlling tty? (still having difficulty to forget my UNIX background
)Any suggestions to solve this riddle?
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