Hello,

I have a lot of automated tasks running on Linux/shell scripts. Now I am evaluating possibilities to consolidate all automated tasks to a single Windows server. So I downloaded VC trial today. After playing with VC I found I am too much shell scripts oriented and soon got lost with VC, specially how variables are handled. So many options and screens...

Some real world examples I need to solve:

1. Bunch of pdf-files is stored to local network volume several times a day
- for each pdf file name should be corrected by keeping only first 13 charaters + file extension (there is in between some additional characters)
- after renaming convert each .pdf file to jpeg in three sizes and save each(1234567890123_small.jpg, 1234567890123_medium.jpg and 1234567890123_high.jpg). For image conversion we use ImageMagick "mogrify -define pdf:use-cropbox=true -flatten - etc...". Keep the original renamed .pdf too.
- log every file renamed and converted (check out what mogrify resulted, did it save files)
- do this every 30 minutes or by trigger (a new pdf saved to source folder)

2. Download a text file (lets say catalog.txt) from FTP server (sourceftp) to local volume (/download) using user name "ftpuser" and password "ftppass"
- after download make a backup of the file (to /backups
- convert file line breaks CR to CRLF
- upload converted file to SFTP-server (partnerftp) username "sftpuser", using keyfile from /keys
- log actions done
- do this once a day in the morning 6 am

So any help would be good to get me going. 😁

Hi Juha,

this should not be a problem. We are based in Sweden, most of our customers are from the US but we have some customers in Finland:

http://www.visualcron.com/Customers.aspx 

If you want a reference let me know and I can write and ask for contact details. Otherwise you have 45 days of trial with full functionality and we will help you get you started.

By the way, we tried to email you yesterday but you have us the wrong email so it bounced back.

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If you want we could schedule a time for a call. We recommend that you look at these video tutorials:

http://www.visualcron.com/Tutorials.aspx 

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Hi Juha,

this should not be a problem. We are based in Sweden, most of our customers are from the US but we have some customers in Finland:

http://www.visualcron.com/Customers.aspx 

If you want a reference let me know and I can write and ask for contact details. Otherwise you have 45 days of trial with full functionality and we will help you get you started.

By the way, we tried to email you yesterday but you have us the wrong email so it bounced back.

Hello,

thanks. Reference would be nice. Meanwhile I'll continue evaluating. I have vc installed in my own workstation, did not want to mess up with servers.

I got forum mails to the mailbox I used for profile, that is departments generic mailbox. Will send my personal by mail.