Videos in this Documentation
This documentation contains videos that complement the descriptions and explanations. This page provides links to the pages that contain those videos:
Product Overview
This video provides a high-level overview of Automic Automation.
Video
Watch the Video: Product Overview
Audience
All users
Documentation
User Interface
If you are new to Automic Automation, watch these videos before you start working with the system. They walk you through the user interface.
Videos
- Watch the Videos: Introducing the Automic Web Interface
- Video: Introduction to the Process Assembly Perspective
- Video: Introduction to the Process Monitoring Perspective
Target Audience
All users. The Process Assembly video is particularly relevant for developers and object designers. The Process Monitoring video is particularly relevant for operators and managers.
Documentation
These videos complement the following sections in the product documentation:
- User Interface
- Role-Oriented User Interface
- Process Assembly Perspective
- Process Monitoring Perspective
Objects and Object Types
The basic principle of Automic Automation is object-oriented design. This video outlines the types of objects that are available for automating processes.
Video
Target Audience
All users
Documentation
This video complements the following sections in the product documentation:
Jobs
Jobs are one of the most common building blocks in Workflows. Watch the following videos that show how to define and work with Windows and UNIX Jobs.
Videos
Target Audience
All users, particularly developers and object designers
Documentation
These videos complement the following sections in the product documentation:
File Transfers
File Transfers automate Agent-to-Agent FTP processes without an FTP server. This video shows how to define a File Transfer, execute it and use it in a Workflow. It also shows how to troubleshoot when a File Transfer fails.
Video
File Transfer: Watch the Video
Target Audience
All users, particularly developers and object designers
Documentation
This video complements the following sections in the product documentation:
Events
Event objects synchronize Automic Automation processes with external events. This video shows how to create, configure and use Event objects.
Video
Target Audience
All users, particularly developers and object designers
Documentation
This video complements the following sections in the product documentation:
Scripting and Script Objects
This video introduces you to the Automation Engine scripting language and to the Script objects.
Video
Watch the Video: Scripting and Script Objects
Audience
All users, particularly developers and object designers
Documentation
Includes
This video shows how to create an Include object and use it in a Job.
Video
Watch the Video: Include Objects
Audience
All users, particularly developers and object designers
Documentation
Workflows
Workflows are one of the core automation objects. These videos show you the most important functions and tools in the Workflow editor and how to create a Workflow that automates all the tasks necessary for onboarding an new employee.
Videos
Target Audience
All users, particularly developers and object designers
Documentation
These videos complement the following sections in the product documentation:
- Designing Workflows in the Editor
- Moving Tasks in the Workflow and Panning
- Selecting Tasks in the Workflow
- Connecting Tasks in the Workflow
- Zooming in the Workflow
- Copying, Replacing and Removing Tasks in Workflows
- Inserting and Removing Rows and Columns in Workflows
Conditions
This video shows how to automate the execution of tasks using Schedule objects.
Video
Watch the Video: Conditions in Workflow Tasks
Audience
All users, particularly developers and object designers
Documentation
This video complements the following section in the product documentation:
Conditions, Preconditions, Postconditions
Schedules
This video shows how to automate the execution of tasks using Schedule objects.
Video
Watch the Video: Schedule Objects
Audience
All users
Documentation
Calendars
This video shows how to create Calendars and Calendar Events (Weekly, Monthly, Yearly, Group and Offset)
Video
Target Audience
Administrators, developers and object designers
Documentation
This video complements the following sections in the product documentation:
Notifications
These videos provide an introduction to the Notification object and show how to configure a Notification that sends e-mails.
Videos
Target Audience
Administrators, developers and object designers
Documentation
This video complements the following sections in the product documentation:
PromptSets
These videos explain how to create a PromptSet and how to apply it to an object.
Videos
Target Audience
Developers and object designers. Operators who need to understand how PromptSets are configured.
Documentation
This video complements the following sections in the product documentation:
VARA objects
VARA objects are essential for efficiently configuring objects. These videos introduce you to VARA objects and illustrate how to use them.
Videos
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This video provides a short introduction to STATIC and DYNAMIC VARA objects.
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Watch the Video: Configuring Workflows with VARA objects
This video explains how to define VARA objects (specifically STATIC and XML VARA objects) to store configuration values. It also illustrate how to reference those VARA objects in Workflows, depending on specific scenarios
Target Audience
Developers and object designers. Operators who need to understand variables and VARA objects to monitor tasks.
Documentation
This video complements the following sections in the product documentation:
Search Capabilities
Your system provides various ways to find the objects and tasks that you need. This video introduces you to them.
Video
Target Audience
All users
Documentation
This video complements the following sections in the product documentation:
Authorizations and Privileges
This video introduces administrator users to the user management capabilities of Automic Automation.
Video
Watch the Video: Authorizations and Privileges
Audience
Administrators
Documentation
User Management: Defining and Managing the Authorization System
Installing Agents
These videos show how to install a Windows and a UNIX Agent.
Videos
Audience
Administrators
Documentation