Hello Community,
I want to share with you a tool that without the help of our friend VS Copilot it would not exist.
I have faced the problem, specially working on Customer Support, that you are consulting several topics on the Automation Help, but you install an upgrade in Automation Studio and need to close the help before the installation (or any other scenario like restarting your computer).
It was a bit annoying to restore manually all the tabs every time, so I let the AI start to investigate if and external process could find out which tabs are opened and also if from outside could open a tab. The answer of both questions was yes, so I started to work in a Desktop app.
You can see and test the result in the following public Github repository.
BRES-Public/br-help-restore: windows tool to restore all the opened tabs in the Automation Help
The idea is launch this small Windows app in the Startup programs and let it run in the background.
This are the main features of the BR-Help-Restore:
- Works with multiple instances of Automation Help and could be mixed (AH3, AH4, AH6, more than one of each type…)
- In the UI you can select the period of saving the current tabs.
- In the UI you can open or copy the links of the online Automation Help of your local tabs (it detects if it is AH4 or AH6 and opens it accordingly)
- It works if you close this app and reopens again or if you restart your computer.
- It shows you the last time that the tabs was saved.
- It has a log system to check if anything does not work properly.
- No necessary to have the icon in the Taskbar. If you close the UI it goes to the Icon Overflow Menu (like AR Sim or PVI Manager). From that menu you can actually close it.
Overview of the app
I hope you find useful this little tool. For me it is saving some time in my daily work.
Any feedback is welcome.
Best regards
Raúl
P.S. Only for B&R Colleagues. If you like this use of AI give me a vote in the AI Use Case Award 