Upload Site with Hotkey Trigger

May 11 2010

Imagine having more than one websites to upload and hardly any time to waste for such a routine procedure. WinAutomation provides a series of FTP Actions you could use to automate any FTP Upload.


Click below to watch Step-By-Step

How to create a Job that will Upload your Website via FTP just by Striking a Hotkey 



Creating the Job on the fly just by following basic instructions...

Set Variable Action

To start with, we set the folder that contains our website on our local computer in a variable.

Open FTP Connection Action

We open our FTP Connection Action and fill in all the details of our FTP Connection (Host, Username, Password). The enter password option should be se to directly, and we then store the Connection to the %FtpConnection% variable.

Upload Folder(s) to FTP

We then use the Upload Folder to FTP Action to send our folder (using the %FolderToUpload% variable) to the server using the %FtpConnection%.

Close FTP Connection

In order to finish our job we close the FTP Connection we previously opened using the %FTPConnection% variable.

 Job Trigger Properties > Add New Trigger >

Once we are back in WinAutomation Console, we right click on our job and we click on the Trigger Properties option. We choose to add our new trigger to be a Keyboard Monitor Trigger.

Keyboard Monitor Trigger Properties

We set the trigger to run this job whenever we press the Control, Shift, Alt and U keys, all together

 

The Job is now complete and ready to run!


 

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