Magento DataFlow is displayed with the profiles is not really equipped to be good, In what the- and in terms of export data, particularly concerning. their automation. The function of the Extended Profiles will remain closed to most.
Be such e.g.. Inventory updates often tedious and time consuming to manually call the Magento Import Profiles.
However, there is a simple and free solution, data import and export to automate. The secret is CRON Profiles. This free Magento extension, the advanced profiles added to the entries for the- und Export. The CRON settings here can be set individually for each profile.

That leaves the question, how to fill the extended profiles for data export and import.
At this point, only the simple solution: The 'simple’ Create a profile as usual, in 'profile actions in XML’ change, and then copy actions in XML in the 'extended profiles’ copy. The CRON settings as usual and ….

everything is good. Unfortunately, only almost, because so far I can not specify dynamic file name. Who can help here, is warmly welcome to this comment.
ATTENTION: The extension is for Magento 1.3 written, also functions in 1.4.0.1 and is NOT from me 1.5 tested. This information would be helpful.
