Category Archives: Automation Workshop

Automation Workshop v4.0 introduces FTP & Cloud actions

Automation Workshop 4th version is another major milestone that brings a completely redesigned user interface along with new cloud actions and triggers. As Windows 7 EOL is approaching rapidly, we have aligned the user experience to the new UI paradigm that matches Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016/2019 user experience. While the new interface looks …

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Automation Workshop just passed 1,000,000 (one million) downloads

It was just four years ago when we launched freeware version of Automation Workshop and at that moment the download count of commercial version passed over 300,000 mark. Today Automation Workshop passed one million downloads (Free+Commercial). That’s about 700,000 downloads in 4 years. We are very excited about accelerated growth of our flagship product. It …

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Automation Workshop v3.0.0 is available for download

We have just released Automation Workshop v3.0.0 which introduces 18 new actions in three categories – addition to the File / Folder category, as well as brand new – Loops and Text categories. Long requested actions for text string manipulations and loops are finally there. Now it is possible to use custom named variables and …

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[Fix] Class not found in Automation Workshop Free Edition

We have just fixed one nasty bug in the Setup file for Free Edition of Automation Workshop. It prevented running Example Tasks, and tasks that uses Dialog Boxes under Windows 8, 8.1 and Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, if Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 was not manually installed. Version number stays the same 2.3.0 – there …

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Automation Workshop, Update to v2.3.0 available now

We have just released a new version of Automation Workshop with some minor updates and two new Actions. Also, File / Folder Watcher now supports Old filename (name before file was renamed) via Variable Wizard. Read full change log here. This version adds two new Wait actions. Wait for file and Wait for time. See …

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File name of 255 characters and path up to 32,727 symbols are supported by Automation Workshop

There are certain limits of file name and path lengths in the Microsoft Windows. These limits are very high for most practical purposes, thus not encountered very often, and because of that, are somewhat vaguely understood. In this discussion I am mainly going to refer to NTFS file system as the currently most advanced file …

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Freeware edition of the Automation Workshop is available

Today (Aug 13, 2014) we are proud to announce the release of free edition of our flagship software product – Automation Workshop. We believe that our step will attract much more attention, and to not confuse commercial and freeware communities, we have created dedicated website for it. AutomationWorkshop.org is a new official home for Automation …

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