Some issues found...
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 1:33 pm
First of all, RoboTask is a great application and does what I want even though I'm no programmer ;-)But I found some things pretty strange and want to have them discussed here:- when exporting tasks to a removable media (USB-stick), RoboTask doesn't release the media that it can be removed securely. RT has to be shut down. Why?- when importing tasks from somewhere, the tasks are renamed to 'task (imported)'. Why? I use to run a task which starts some other tasks. When deleting tasks to (manually) import updated versions, all referrals to the task names in the 'Start Task' dialog were blanked out - with the result that these tasks will never start.- on my test box I had a task (circular event, watching a directory, doing TIFF2PDF conversion when files arrives) running for 2 days. Then I decided to cease this test. I removed the task and restarted RT - with no task at all, just sitting idle...To my amazement I encountered TIFF2PDF conversion in the former watched directory even after removing the task AND restarting RT.What the hell causes RT to still run a task that isn't existent any longer? This left me baffled...- in my test environment (VMWare WS with 4 virtual appliances simulating local and remote machines) among others there's one task concatenating text files inserting page breaks just as you told me to do - works perfectly.When I exported all tasks and imported them on the machine where RT recently has to run, everything was working pretty well - except concatenating. Well, not generally - of course, page breaks were inserted, but I encountered one glitch resulting in some strange behavior:there is some garbage added to the very begin of the text file - the hex string 'D0CF11E0A1B11AE10D0A' causing refusal to be opened by a text viewer or by MS Word.No clue where it comes from.- how can I be sure that changes made to tasks (then imported on the target machine) really make an impact after a restart? What causes RT to act differently on a machine where tasks were imported rather than generated/added manually?Thanks for your support