How to open a website automatically every morning
Create an Open job in Schedule by Zaweba with the website's address and a timetable such as every day at 8:00, and the page opens in your browser on time.
Make a new job in Schedule by Zaweba, choose the Open a file, folder or website type, enter the website's address and give it a timetable such as every day at 8:00. At that time each morning the page opens in your usual browser, just as if you had clicked a link.
It is a small thing that solves a common problem: the page you mean to check every morning, and somehow forget to on the busiest days.
What you need
Only the address of the page and a time. Copy the address from your browser's address bar so it is exactly right, including the https at the start. Schedule hands it to Windows to open, so whichever browser you normally use will open it.
Writing the morning timetable
Schedule's timetables are written the way you would say them. Every day at 8:00 runs seven days a week. Every weekday at 8:00 skips Saturday and Sunday, which is usually what you want for a work page. If you would rather it opened at a different time on a Monday, make that its own job.
Before you save, read the preview. Schedule describes the timetable back in words and lists the next 10 run times, so you can see straight away whether the weekend is included.
If you work in the UK, the job can also skip bank holidays for England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, so a work dashboard does not open on a day off. Dates for 2024 to 2030 are built in, and Refresh from gov.uk downloads the latest list when you click it in Settings.
Opening it when you sign in instead
A fixed time works if you are always at the PC by then. If your mornings vary, a trigger may suit better. A job can start at login, so the page opens as soon as you sign in, whether that is at 7:45 or 9:30.
Making sure it does not get in the way
If the PC is sometimes running a presentation or a video call at that time, add the condition not while a full-screen program is in front. The run is skipped rather than throwing a browser window over your screen, and the history says why it was skipped.
Schedule runs as you, from the notification area, and jobs run while you are signed in to Windows. If you were not signed in at 8:00, catch-up can run the missed job once as soon as Schedule is running, which for a morning page is usually what you want.
Choosing the right kind of job
The Open job is meant for things you want to look at. It opens the page and its work is done. If what you really need is to call a web address so a service does something, such as pinging a site or triggering a web hook, use the Call a web address job instead. That sends the request itself with GET, POST or another method, treats any 2xx reply as success and records the status code in the history, without opening a browser at all.
A news or weather page before you set off. A company dashboard or status page at the start of the working day. A booking page on the morning it opens. A timesheet site every Friday afternoon, with a timetable like every Friday at 16:00.
Testing it
After saving, press Run now. The page should open straight away. If it does not, check the address for a typing mistake. Then leave it to the timetable.
With one short job in Schedule by Zaweba, the page you mean to check every morning is already open when you sit down.
