Run a program
Get your programs to run automatically, either on a scheduled or action-triggered basis. ThinkAutomation allows you to orchestrate actions across the systems in your tech stack via a drag-and-drop studio. So, you can run programs and automate any number of actions inside them.
Run a program - overview
- This baked-in ThinkAutomation action will execute any Windows executable file
- You can set optional parameters and use %fieldname% replacements
- You can optionally specify user credentials that the program should execute as
- ThinkAutomation can wait for the program to complete before continuing with any remaining actions in the workflow
- You can also receive the output of the program, which can then be assigned to a variable for subsequent automations
Run a program – use cases
- Auto-run a program at a fixed time
- Trigger a program to a launch following a successful 2-factor auth
- Remotely auto-start an IoT system
- Restart a program following a detected system failure
- Plus countless more, depending on your desired use case
- Backup emails
- Email attachment storage
- Email parsing
- Email sentiment analysis
- Email to cloud
- Email to CRM
- Email to CSV
- Email to database
- Email to spreadsheet
- Email translation
- Move email attachment to folder automatically
- Outlook export all emails
- Parse email attachment
- Translate attachment
Database
- Data ETL
- Database automation
- Database counters
- Database monitoring
- Mongo update
- SQL to Excel
- Translate database
- Update a database
Telephony
CRM
- CRM data entry
- CRM sentiment analysis
- Dynamics automation
- Salesforce automation
- SugarCRM automation
- Zoho automation
Automation actions
- Automatic compression
- Automatic encryption
- Automatic translation
- Create hash file
- Database lookup
- Date operation
- Detect language
- Execute PowerShell
- Execute script
- Extract field
- File operation
- FTP download
- FTP upload
- GeoIP lookup
- MongoDB lookup
- OAuth sign-in
- Process files
- Run a program
- Send Teams message
- Sentiment score
- Set variable
- Speak text
- SQL command to update data in a database
- SQL execute command
- String operation
- Summarise text
- Train sentiment analysis model
Product
- .NET scripting
- Automation gateway
- Automation IDE
- Automation studio
- C# scripting
- Continuous processing
- Design actions
- High speed automation
- HTTP API
- JSON parser
- Local automation
- Markdown support
- Message store
- Public web API
- RPA community
- RPA designer
- SendGrid mail server
- Text summariser
- Visual Studio code paste without formatting