Build Your Automation

Now, the designer is launched and ready to build in your automation solutions. To create your workflow, first let’s create a new solution. Follow the below steps to create a new solution:

1. To get started using the Designer, the user needs to create a new solution by selecting “CTRL +N” or by clicking on “Create New Solution” button.
2. A Pop- up window labelled as “New solution”, appears to fill out the details of the Solution Name, Solution Description, Workflow Name, Workflow Description, and location path to be saved.
3. After filling out the details, the user needs to click on the “Create” button to create the new solution.
4. The solution will be created and saved in the specified location.

And then you are all set to build the automation solution. As you can see on the left-hand side of the designer interface, there will be “Toolbox” panel. Here you can view the list of features are installed on the system. There will be a set of features that are installed by default. But wait there are a lot of features that awaiting to be explored.

Installing the features

On the top of the designer, you can see “Manage Features” option. The Manage Features option enumerates the list of all features that are available for the Designer. It also displays the features which has been installed, features which have updates, any new features available currently for the designer and a browse option to browse and use any feature located in our system.

To get more detailed information, click here.

Now, let’s install the features using this option.

1. Click on the “Manage Features” option.
2. Navigate to the “New features” option to discover and download the latest features.
3. Now, you can click on “Select All” option on the top of the window and select “Install” option.
    a. It will install all the features available in the designer.
    b. This process might take a time since all the features are being installed one by one.
4. The designer will be refreshed, and you can view all the installed features on the “Toolbox” section. 

Now let’s start building our automation solution. In the interface you can now drag and drop any activities into the flowchart and start creating the solution.

Steps to build the bot

Here I am going to showcase a demonstration of how to prompt a notification to the user.

1. Navigate to the “Toolbox” section and search for the activity as “MessageBox”.
2. Drag and drop the “MessageBox” activity from the “Notification” feature and set it as start node.
    a. Setting the activity as the start node helps to initiate the execution process from that activity.
    b. It helps the user to showcase any input either by hardcoding the values or by providing the input variable. Click here to get more information.
3. Double click on the activity.
4. Here, provide the input value as “Hello, Welcome to Automation”.
    a. This field accepts only “String” datatype; hence we are providing the value within the double quotes.