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Build Automator Documentation
Future plans
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Build Automator™
The Gold release of the 2014 Edition will be available on September 17, 2014. Included in our Maintenance Plan are all updates for one year Registered users will receive emails when new releases are made available. We will also post on our forum when we are ready with new releases. The Build Automator™ can also check automatically for new updates every time it is started.
Please let us know what actions you would like to see in the upcoming releases and we will review each suggestion.
Some of the planned actions and additions for Build Automator include - in no specific order:
| ► | Improved Drag and Drop support |
| ► | Support for various version control systems |
| ► | Download files from FTP server. |
| ► | Compare files in a FTP folder to a local folder. |
| ► | Compile Help and Manual projects. |
| ► | Logical structures - IF/ELSE/END. |
| ► | Conditions for action execution (acts as a one action IF statement) Included in version 1.30.100 |
| ► | Get version information from executable files. |
| ► | Advanced Copy action with wildcard and overwrite options if date/time/size/attributes are different between source and destination. |
| ► | Zip/Unzip files/folders. |
| ► | Show code signing information from executable files. |
| ► | Set variables action to assign values returned from various functions to variables. Included in version 1.30.100 |
| ► | Add option to check/uncheck all in Project Item list and Action Item list on the Project Window. |
| ► | Search locator on Variables selection window. Included in 2014 |
| ► | User formatting of variables. |
| ► | Copy/Paste variables from one project to another. |
| ► | Wait action in case some programs need specific time to shut down or time out. Included in version 1.10.100. |
| ► | Multi section/entry update of INI files. |
| ► | Multi key/value update of registry. |
| ► | Include projects. When included projects change, those changes are reflected in the execution of the main script. Developer Edition only. |
| ► | Action templates - selection of actions saved to a template that can be added at any point. Developer Edition only. |
| ► | Network protection of scripts so that only one user can modify a script over a network but any user could execute it. This also involves creating separate log files for each user. |
| ► | Improved protection of scripts that are opened in more than one window, by more than once instance of the program, or by more than one user. |
| ► | Scheduling of executing scripts. |
| ► | For Clarion developers:
Register templates
Export application to .txa
Export dictionary to .txd
Execute utility template |
| ► | Write resource files for Visual Studio languages. Set the version to a variable and use that to set the version in the resource. (See Write text to file) Included in version 1.60.1252. |
| ► | Write resource files for Clarion, supporting Clarion 6 and older, Clarion 7 and Clarion#. Set the version to a variable and use that to set the version in the resource. (See Write text to file) Included in version 1.60.1252. |
| ► | Support for UNC paths for complete machine independence on networks. |
The list goes on...
Direct link to this page:
http://www.buildautomator.com/onlinemanual/futureplans.htm