- Release notes
- Task Mining overview
- Setup and configuration
- Assisted Task Mining
- Unassisted Task Mining
- Additional resources
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Steps and actions
A Step contains a number of actions made in order to complete the task. The action represents a certain activity, such as a click, documented using a screenshot that underlines the action and the place where this was made.
PII Masking is enabled by default and sensitive info is already hidden. See Settings for more information on PII Data Masking.
The trace diagram is composed of a number of steps linked between a Start node and an End action. For each step the following information is displayed:
- the step name. By default, the name of the newly created step is 'Untitled step'.
- the number of actions made to complete it.
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the time it took to capture the actions.
The default name of the step is updated automatically after capturing the actions for it with the name of the application window where the step was captured. For instance, Google Chrome or Outlook Mail.
Follow these steps to change the name.
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Locate the step for which you want to change the name.
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Select the name and enter the new name.
See the illustration below.
Follow the step below to view the step details.
The actions are displayed on the right-hand side of the screen in the Step Editor.
For each action, the following information is displayed:
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the title,
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the action category (Mouse click, Text entry, or Hotkey),
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the duration of the action,
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the captured screenshot,
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annotations to the action such as a description.
To add more actions to a step or modify the captured actions follow the steps below:
- Select the Add image as action icon between two actions. A popup dialog is displayed.
- Select the image you want to add as an action to the step and select Open.
- Add a title and description to the action.
To give more information about an action, you can add a Title and Description by selecting the fields below the image.
The context menu enables you to perform various actions on images. Follow these steps to open the context menu of an action.
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Select the Step from the trace. The Step Editor panel is displayed.
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In the Step Editor, hover over the image of the action you want to delete. A
icon is displayed.
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Select the
icon to open the context menu.
Follow these steps to edit an action.
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Select the Step from the trace. The Step Editor panel is displayed.
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In the Step Editor, locate the action you want to edit and open the context menu.
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Select Edit image.
The Action Editor is displayed. See the illustration below.
You can also double-click on an action to open the Action Editor.
You can download an image from an action and, for example, re-use it in another action.
Follow these steps to download the image of an action.
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Locate the image you want to download and open the context menu.
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Select Download.
The image is downloaded to your computer.