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KevinH · 08-30-2021, 09:52 AM

Based on feedback from testers of the betas, the automate feature appears to be quite useful and will be present in the next release.

That leads to a 2 more things:

- How likely will this feature be used by newer or occasional users of Sigil? If not much, should the Automate Toolbar be hidden for all new Sigil users until enabled with the View menu?

- Is there anyone willing to contribute an Automate chapter for our Sigil User Guide? Perhaps with a couple of sample Automate Lists that users might find useful? A picture of the Automate Toolbar, and a picture of the Automate Editor and maybe even a picture of the resulting log?

If not, I will take a shot at it but I am a horrible writer.

Thanks,

ps:

I just pushed to master support for the following 4 new automate Tool commands (and added AutomateEditor support for them). Thank BeckyEbook for the idea!

SetBookBrowserToAllCSS
- "Select all CSS Files in BookBrowser"

SetBookBrowserToAllHTML
- "Select all HTML Files in BookBrowser"

SetBookBrowserToAllImages
- "Select all Image Files in BookBrowser"

SetBookBrowserToInitialSelection
- "Reset BookBrowser to its initial selection"

08-30-2021, 09:52 AM	#67
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,878 Karma: 6120478 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Based on feedback from testers of the betas, the automate feature appears to be quite useful and will be present in the next release. That leads to a 2 more things: - How likely will this feature be used by newer or occasional users of Sigil? If not much, should the Automate Toolbar be hidden for all new Sigil users until enabled with the View menu? - Is there anyone willing to contribute an Automate chapter for our Sigil User Guide? Perhaps with a couple of sample Automate Lists that users might find useful? A picture of the Automate Toolbar, and a picture of the Automate Editor and maybe even a picture of the resulting log? If not, I will take a shot at it but I am a horrible writer. Thanks, ps: I just pushed to master support for the following 4 new automate Tool commands (and added AutomateEditor support for them). Thank BeckyEbook for the idea! SetBookBrowserToAllCSS - "Select all CSS Files in BookBrowser" SetBookBrowserToAllHTML - "Select all HTML Files in BookBrowser" SetBookBrowserToAllImages - "Select all Image Files in BookBrowser" SetBookBrowserToInitialSelection - "Reset BookBrowser to its initial selection"