Desperate need of Batch file help!

[JohnIT]

Hello,

So here in my office I have been placed in charge of making the workflow of one of my departments more efficient by automating some of the processes. The job essentially entails going to the Labor and Industries website, filtering a search of image reports, and then printing those reports off ordered by date. I figured a batch file might be the easiest way to do this or some kind of script I can type up. A few problems I've encountered are that once your search results are listed, they are all named the same thing, ie "PDFIMAGE.pdf" or something to that extent. I'm thinking that maybe a batch file that automatically downloaded these files in order, and then numerically renamed them, would probably at least make it so you can then print them from 1-Whatever.

The problem I am facing, however, is that I am having trouble finding many resources on the topic or an index of command lines to effectively use, which is why I am wondering if creating this kind of script is even possible. I've been told a competitor uses a similar process for the same website, but it is much less evolved and just prints everything then they have to pick out the unwanted documents afterwards, which I know that if it possible to even do it in the first place, there has to be a way to make it more refined with some extra work.

Anybody with any ideas or links to some good resources please let me know! I have a little bit of coding experience and am sure I can do this, I just need some guidance and tutorials/a decent plan.


Thanks!

John

[ShuckyD]

I would think you should have more control over such a task with a VB app (or vbScript) ratehr than a batch file. With an application you have more options as to what you want to do with the data, etc.