Use VBS, JS, or WIL scripting to automate complex business processes

When an AutoIntern event is triggered, it can perform a simple operation such as launching a program and sending it keystrokes. Very often this is all that's necessary to automate this step in your workflow.

But sometimes automating the next step requires a more complex operation—and here is where most job-schedulers in our price range fail miserably. AutoIntern can execute a script written in industry-standard VBScript (VBS), JScript (JS), or AutoIntern's powerful built-in Windows Interface Language (WIL).

The WIL language forms the heart of WinBatch, the popular standalone macro & scripting environment by Wilson WindowWare. Our products have always natively supported WIL—first in Clock Manager for Windows 3.1, then in ClockMan95, and now in AutoIntern—because it's uniquely geared towards simplifying the scripting of management operations on Windows systems. WIL doesn't impose the kind of steep learning curve that VBScript and JScript can. With WIL, even someone who isn't a full-time software developer can quickly put together a surprisingly sophisticated solution for just about any custom need.

Whichever scripting language you use to automate a job in your workflow, the script can use COM Automation to interrogate the AutoIntern event that launched it. AutoIntern exposes the information surrounding an event as a series of methods and properties which the script can query or modify.

Some job schedulers force you to build up your custom automation solution from a purely graphical interface. Now, we think graphical interfaces are great—and at first blush it's tempting to think that you can point & click your way to a perfect automation solution for your situation. But the fact is, there is a staggering diversity of business processes out there in the small-business world. Everybody's business is different. And everybody's business processes have evolved into something unique—with unique automation needs. You simply can't capture that kind of diversity with arrows & boxes.

This is why we considered it essential for AutoIntern to support the best script languages out there today.