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Starting a Job

frschof - October 21, 2008 - 11:12am

Is there a way to start a sync job automatially when u start app. Trying to cut down on key strokes. Users are elementary kids.. They will be syncing up homework info to there school thumb drives..


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You

could always write a little batch file to do it, that way you could just ask them to run that. If you need any help then just ask Smiling

'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK

Batch File help to Run Job

Steve,,

Thank you for the offer. Batch file yes I would need help on that. Or u can point me in the right direction and I can play with the scripting.

What the kids are going to do is place their thumbdrive into a hub and then activate the batch file that will download thier desingated data to their thumbdrive.

I have worked it out with the app and it works fine downloading data to the thumb wanted to make it real easy for the kids (and teachers)..

Frank

Sure

if you read to the help file and look under command line then there is a list of commands.

For example if you have Toucan on each of the drives and the job is called DataCopy you could write the following in notepad and save it as a .bat file and put it in the root of the drive.

CD PortableApps\Toucan\App\toucan
Toucan DataCopy

That should work, put it is straight off the top of my head so might not. Then the students could just double click on the batch file and it would run the job.

'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK