Have you thought aboutAutomating Pipeline Runner Automation?Simply use the Windows to run Projects or Scripts to a Schedule

Pipeline Runner is perfect for automating all sorts of computer based tasks, but as a command line application by its very nature it has to be actually run. This is normally done by the user activating it:

• from within Pipeline Runner Studio
• from a command line
• in a batch file
• etc.

So what happens when you want to create a Pipeline Runner project that will do something like automatically uploading daily changes to your source to a remote Git repository?

The answer is simple for Windows users – just use Task Scheduler to create a Task and set its action to run Pipeline Runner referencing the required project or script.

Assuming you have your remote repository already set up, and you will be using your local machine and credentials, the steps are:

1. Create a Pipeline Runner project or script to add any unstaged, added, or modified files to the staged items, commit them, and push them to the repository – like the one shown in this news item: Git Automation Support
2. Open the Windows Task Scheduler
3. Create a new Task
4. Fill out the various tabs and create an Action that references Pipeline Runner and the project or script you created in the first step
5. Save it

If you have done it all correctly, every day at the specified time – typically you will choose a time when you know that you will be asleep – it will run the script for you thereby completely automating the automation!

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