We are working on an enhanced Website Learner Advanced mode script editor that will make writing macros for login and change password automation much easier to do. This feature enhancement is currently in Beta test phase and we are letting users have a preview of the new feature by downloading latest published version of PRESS. Please get this version of PRESS today and see what you think of the script editor. You can give us feedback on anything you see in the editor that needs improvement.

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Our online password generator located at https://horvathsoftware.com/OnlinePasswordGenerator.aspx has been updated with an improved user interface.  Unchanged in that passwords generated on this page are not stored anywhere on our web server.  You may control the behavior of the password generator by entering your desired parameters in the Online Password Generator web form.

Here's the list of input controls:

1. minPasswordLen - the minimum password length and when equal to the maxPasswordLen this sets the fixed password length.  When less than maxPasswordLen a random password length is generated between the two length settings.
2. maxPasswordLen - the maximum password length.
3. excludedSymbols - for passwords with symbols in them this controls what symbols are excluded unless the Allowed Instead checkbox is checked.  When Allowed Instead is checked then only the symbols in the text box are used when a symbol is added to the password.
4. AllowedInstead - this checkbox controls the behavior of the excludedSymbols text box.
5. PasswordCharacterSelections - this drop down list allows you to select your desired picks for each character of the password.  The settings on this control are self explanatory.

Also included are these buttons:

1. Generate Password - will generate a new password using the settings displayed in the input controls
2. Copy to clipboard - will copy the password textbox to your clipboard
3. Export to PRESS - will create an export file that is compatible with PRESS's import feature that will allow you to save any password to your password vault

PRESS makes use of Selenium web drivers for the various browsers supported by login/ password change automation. We found that for the Edge browser Microsoft is continually making updates that require a new web driver that is matched to the Edge browser version. Because we want to be able to support any customer using our password manager and don't know what version of Edge may be installed on their system we came up with a solution that minimizes need for adding all the versions of the Edge web driver and automatically selecting the correct one based upon the version of Edge on their PC.

Our solution allows the current release of PRESS to work on any version of web driver by giving a user interface that will allow the user to select the correct version of web driver matched to their browser version. This "hot swap" feature works by making an API call to get the list of drivers available for download from our server and will swap the driver the user chooses for the one that is installed already. The user interface is found on the About screen and will show the user which version is currently installed and to change the driver the user can pick from a dropdown list the correct version. (If you cannot find the version matched to your browser feel free to contact our tech support to have the version you need added to our server.)

The "hot swap" feature will allow support of future updates without the need to build a new PRESS setup package. This saves effort on our part in creating and maintaining PRESS setup packages. We only have to make a table entry for any new web drivers and add the driver to our server so that it may be downloaded and swapped in place of the default driver that comes with the PRESS setup package.

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Our password manager PRESS can provide IT staff members an automated system to generate, store and change passwords that are used in their IT shop's solutions. For example we have a feature that will update web.config files with password changes automatically. The current version of PRESS requires that an IT staff member develop a macro to perform that task, but it is fairly easy to do. The password generator will allow you to control what characters and symbols are used when randomly generating the password and you can generate long passwords for improved security.

We have plans for future version of PRESS that will automatically update passwords using a change password macro when a password expires according to the password aging value you select. This will further improve security.

Give PRESS a try today for free and for a fee you can activate this software to unlock the fully functional version.

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For our users of PRESS that are updating passwords that are also stored in web.config files of your websites, we have added a new macro action, "Update Web Config".  This will aid you by automating the process of updating an account that is associated with a web.config entry of its password.  This new macro action is available only to Change Password macros and is implemented using text parameters stored in your macros.  The first parameter is the path of the web.config file in your development environment's source code directory.  This parameter is required and is validated to make sure that there really is a web.config file at the path location.  The second parameter is optional and defines the path to which to deploy the web.config file.    Both these paths may be either UNC path or DriveLetter: (\\server\path or c:\path) path depending upon your particular environment.

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