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Category: COM

COM (Microsoft’s Component Object Model)
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Transfer systems automatically regardless of their sources

transfer systems

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Our clients enter campaigns into a SharePoint page that need to be transferred to our CMS. Unfortunately the two systems are not tied in any way and there are no existing API Web Services that we can leverage.

There are over 250 items that might be selected which means we end up taking a lot of time to, manually, transfer the campaigns.

I wrote a script with AutoHotKey that automates much of the process (as well as replacing Unicode values with their HTML equivalents).  This allows me to transfer systems automatically with very little effort!

This saves a TON of mundane time by performing web scraping with AutoHotkey and is more reliable than doing it manually.

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Automate Excel graphs with AutoHotKey and SPSS; Automating pretty charts!

Automate Excel graphsA white stress ball with the green AutoHotkey logo being held in a hand, with a laptop keyboard blurred in the backgroundAfter 20 years of doing multivariate statistics, doing analytics is very quick and easy for me.  Putting together the report which clients will think is “pretty” and convey the results is what really takes the time!  I have a ton of macros in SPSS which greatly simplify the front-end however I’ve always preferred Excel graphs to SPSS (because they don’t look like they were drawn with crayons).

Automate Excel graphs

In the below video I demonstrate how you how you can use AutoHotKey to easily automate Excel graphs that you’ll be proud to put your name on!

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Web Scraping and emailing data to client via Outlook

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Do you frequently  access a Web page / then have to write an email regarding the data you gathered?  I had to look at our SharePoint and then email clients based on what I found.   The email is sent via Outlook and is tailored, specifically, to my client.  Saves me a ton of time!

It is easy to use AutoHotKey to read various aspects of a SharePoint site and write custom emails tailored to the respondents.

Web Scraping and emailing data video demonstration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSe0kky9AzM