Greetings fellow software engineers,
I've extremely new to RPA and I'm looking forward to using some of the best tools. The first task that I want to robotize/automate involves heavy use of outlook. I've seen that G1ANT gives the biggest opportunities to use programming languages (C#) and I want to know is it possible to use it to outlook automation or is there any templates/solutions to do it?
Thanks a lot!
#NeedHelpAsap, G1ANT offers a number of commands for working with Outlook. If you have already installed the latest G1ANT developer version, open it and look on the left side of the workspace for the "Addons" window (if you don't see it, go to the "View" menu at the top and click on "Addons". You should see this, or similar:
Check the "msoffice" box as shown. You'll see a list of commands in the window below. The Outlook-related commands portion should look very much like this:
Double-clicking any of these commands will bring up its help. In the help, in addition to a description of the command and its arguments, there is a tab for the Manual page for that command. You can also view the G1ANT.Robot Manual page online.
Hope this gets you started.
Regards,
burque505
Yes, it is possible to use G1ANT studio to automate outlook, not only outlook you can automate word and many msoffice tools.
Steps to be followed automate outlook is :
Click on View and click on the addons
It will display many addons in that click the tick box of msoffice, this activates the msoffice commands and generates the
list of commands in the down bar.
You can observe commands like excel,word,outlook then go to the outlook command and see the manual to workout with the outlook.
https://manual.g1ant.com/ you can follow this link, it has many more addons and commands.
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In the behaviours overview doc of scriptrunner, it states:
To create a new Behaviour. Go to the Administration screen, and click
the Behaviours link in the Behaviours section, or press gg or . and
type Behaviours.
I've installed scriptrunner trial version, but have no idea how to access that administration screen (the keyboard shortcut doesn't work either)
note: i'm using jira cloud
any ideas?
You are looking at Server Documentation. I believe Cloud Documentation is here and with quick look I couldn't find the section Behaviour. It might be part of their limitation for Cloud version. Take note that, Cloud plugins are using Atlassian Connect and technically it has more limitation in compare to server land.
I would like to send my coworkers a link directly to a line number in a file in our TFS repo. Is this possible? If so, how? We are using TFS 2015.
Currently, the best way I have found is to link to the file like so:
http[s]://{TFS-SERVER}[:{PORT}]/tfs/{PROJECT-COLLECTION}/_versionControl#path={PATH-TO-FILE}
Then, Ctrl+G to manually enter the line number. Before I dig through the JavaScript to find how Ctrl+G works, I am hoping someone can help me out.
I have tried variations on this theme, but without sucecss:
http[s]://{TFS-SERVER}[:{PORT}]/tfs/{PROJECT-COLLECTION}/_versionControl#path={PATH-TO-FILE}#line={LINE}
P.S. My issue is similar to this issue but rather than for Visual Studio, I am looking for a link via the TFS web portal.
Once you select a piece of code in VSO code editor, it is possible to copy a link to that section (see picture below). It looks like TFS has pretty similar url structure, maybe it will work.
Generated link structure
https://{PROJECT_URL}/_versionControl?path={FILE_PATH}&line={SELECTION_START_LINE}&lineEnd={SELECTION_END_LINE}&lineStartColumn={SELECTION_START_COLUMN}&lineEndColumn={SELECTION_END_COLUMN}
Just heard from a guy inside of Microsoft that adding &line=5should work. My local tests show it only works for Visual Studio team Services and doesn't work on TFS 2015 update 2. You'll probably have to wait until update 3 for this feature to hit TFS.
In the mean time, the JavaScript simply looks for a div with the right linenumber attribute:
<div linenumber="5">...</div>
I’m beginning to consider moving an on-prem TFS 2012 installation to Visual Studio Online. So, one of the first things I started investigating was how we might export our content back out of VSO in the future if we ever decided we needed to. The more I’m looking, the less I’m finding. It seems there was a temporary time period when VSO first went GA that Microsoft offered that capability if you asked to have it done (http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/2014-apr-3-vso.aspx). By implication, that would seem to mean that this isn’t something that is a planned feature of VSO.
Making a commitment to house all of my source and ALM data in a repository I’d effectively be barred from leaving doesn’t sound particularly appealing. Am I missing something, or does Microsoft really not have export capabilities on their VSO product roadmap? It would seem that this would be a show-stopper for many organizations from coming onto VSO, which is a perfect application to put into the cloud IMHO.
For code you can use Git. Even if you start with TFVC, you can use Git-TF. Clone with the --deep parameter to get the full history in a new Git repo, then push back to a new project (Git or TFVC).
For work items the TEAM tab in Microsoft Excel is a very capable export facility for work items, though you don't get links (other than parent child), or attachments.
In the original project, create a query that lists all your work items.
Open Excel, go to the TEAM tab and click 'New List', you should get the option to select your project and the query you just created.
In the Work Items tab select the 'Choose Columns' button and select all the columns you want to migrate.
If migrating to another TFS / VSO project, create that project, open another list in Excel connected to the new project.
Cut and paste all the work items from the original project list to the new project list (excluding the Id column).
Publish.
voilà.
You're right there's no good solution for this yet. However, if you're using Git as the source-control back-end (instead of TFVC), you can easily pull down the entire repo then push it up into any other source control server (non-VSO) with full history.
For TFVC source-control, or work items (or builds, test results, etc), things aren't so easy.
The answer is not black and white: with the TFS Client API you can connect to both platform and read/write as you please. It is not a trivial task, so someone has created tooling, like Brian says. Another option is using the open source TFS Integration Platform: it is complex but with some help you can do it.
What you really must consider and plan is the data model: moving from an ALM Platform to another is never trivial and the complexity lies in the difference of the underlying model and any customization you made.
As long as you do not customize you on-prem TFS, it is very doable, with a reasonable effort to move to VSO and back. In this context customize means: custom workitems fields, types or workflows, server-side plugins; shortly anything that requires code or schema change. Note that you can still customize builds as this is properly managed.
I expect to see more solutions arriving thanks to the new REST API, but it will take time before we see solid products.
So your original question has a positive answer (TFS on-prem -> VSO) using OpsHub, but know what you are doing and, as I write, it is practically a one way journey.
I've used TFS Power Tools on a daily basis for several months. I particularly depend on Windows Shell Extension.
For about a week now, two issues have come up:
Issue 1
Every time I enter a directory under TFS control, I have to right-click twice to see the TFS context menu
Issue 2
My pretty TFS Green indicators on files/folders are gone:
I've downloaded and reinstalled the Power Tools, but I still have these two issues.
Any thoughts on how to fix this?
**UPDATE**
Dave gave me the answer via link. Just in case that link goes bad, here is the answer:
Open the registry
Go to : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer \ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers
Prefix any "Tfs" folder with numbers (“1TfsOverlayAdd” , “2TfsOverlayEdit” etc.). This allows them to take priority over other icon overlays.
Restart the machine or kill explorer.exe and restart it
As far as the delay issue is concerned, I'm not experiencing that this morning; which is odd. I question that the solution for the overlay was also the solution for the right-clicking.
Everything's back to normal now so I am good to go.
The missing green icons can be explained here. It is because Windows has a limit of overlay icons it supports. The details on how to fix it are in that blog post.
How long are you waiting after entering a folder before you perform the first Right Click? It sometimes takes a while for the TfsComProviderSvr.exe to check if the local folder is a workspace and register the shell extension.
I like the status email sent by TFS's alerts mechanism when a build breaks.
However I would like to send such an email to the entire team and not rely on the team to subscribe to the alert...
Having a hard time producing a nice and detailed enough message by myself when overriding the "OnBuildBreak" and using the MSBuildCommunityTasks EMail task.
Is there a way to force a TFS alert to be sent to a list of emails?
Can you recommend of a way to send such status notifications?
You could try.
Brian the build bunny
:-)
The Team Build Tray Notification tool what is included in the TFS 2008 Power Tools is very useful for this.
See Buck Hodges' blog for screenshots and more information.
I don't want to dig up an old topic, but for those that stumble upon it two years late (like me), this is built into TFS 2010 now.
Set up an email alias for the team on the mail server, and enter this when subscribing to the mail.
Try the Team Foundation Server Event Subscription Tool.
This allows you to send emails to any address when any TFS event occurs.
Brian the Build bunny is nice but the Nabaztagtag WiFi Rabbit bunny is pretty expensive and is currently out of stock.
The Team Build Tray Notification that comes with TFS is ok, but:
It's damn slow and polling is not configurable
It's too easy to miss the build being broken for projects you care about
Doesn't support different actions for different projects (e.g. show a modal dialog for project #1, but just show a short tray alert for project #2)
Doesn't support different triggers for different people (e.g. show notifications for just me on project #1 or anyone on project #2)
No information on what broke the build (e.g. compiler error, unit test, integration test)
No audible notification if system's on mute
No last build times
So there's an open source project on Google Code that runs in the tray that's available on Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/siren-of-shame/. That project can work independently but it's designed to work with a USB Siren that is available for sale.
I generally like the TFS Build Status Tray by Rob Aquila. Be sure to get the 1.0.1 Beta, as this lets you easily specify the projects to watch using a bit of GUI and also has a notify icon that changes color, so you only need to open the actual build status list when the icon turns red. The 1.0 version had a fixed icon, and only notify toasts in the corner of your screen.
There is also a version of the same tool that is meant to be shown full screen on a wall mounted display for instance.
The July release of TFS 2008 PowerTools adds an "Alert Editor" to Team Explorer. Adding Alerts is a breeze. It has a query tool similar to the Query tool.
In my mind, a open source project named 'Web Deployment Projects' can do this. your can search for it.