Table of contents What's New for Aternity Activity Designer 3.2.x Aternity Activity Designer is the visual tool to create custom activities from a recording without requiring any programming knowledge. Version 3.2.x offers new functionality, features and improvements in performance. For details on the list of resolved issues for this release, see Release Notes for Aternity Activity Designer 3.2.x. Automatically Generate Documents for Your Activities Create an automatically generated HTML document along with an application's signatures. The document details the scope and content of each signature, and also includes automatic screenshots of the start and end events of each activity, for a quick understanding of the details and purpose of each signature. Business Managers and Application Owners can use the document for a quick high level summary of each activity, while signature developers can focus on the Technical Spec. section to quickly understand the technical details, like the events used, and the version of the Agent which captured the original recording. You can automatically generate one document for all activities of an application, or you can create a separate document per activity. Generate a document describing the details of all activities of an application Visualize Literals with Screenshots New screenshots in Designer's Literal Properties pane allow you to visualize the business flow, so you can associate events on the screen with the literals in the Start and Complete sections. Select the screenshot to open it, and add your own caption to include it in the auto-generated HTML document. View a screenshot of the literal and add a caption Cleaner View of Properties in the Literal Editor Now Designer hides unused literal properties from view. To activate any of them, you can right-click and select Show Removed Items (just like mobile activities from Designer 2.1). Less clutter in the literal properties Support for Updated Chrome HTML Monitoring Designer 3.2.x supports native HTML monitoring in Chrome, introduced in Aternity Agent 9.0.5. Designer automatically detects compatible recordings, and creates activities which use the new monitoring functionality. Note It displays events like clicks and key presses in the HTML tab of the events viewer. Mark Used Events for Future Reference If you already used an event in an activity, Designer 3.2 marks it with a green border to easily identify it, so you can match the upper half of the screen with the lower list of events. Select an element above to see its highlighted event below Find Relevant Events More Quickly Find the most salient events for a video frame more quickly by selecting the Gear Icon > Show Only Suggested Events. Show only events likely to be significant for activities Automatically Manage User Interruptions of an Activity Every Windows activity should define the conditions to move its status to incomplete. Typically this is when a user interrupts it with a keypress or a mouse click. If you forget to add this status, a user interrupt can cause unexpected results. Designer 3.2 adds this logic automatically to activities which use UX, by creating three standard user interruptions. They are: Any click Any keypress Application lost focus (for Agent 9.x or later, ignored by earlier Agents). Designer automatically adds the conditions for incomplete status Automatic Tracking of Process IDs Designer 3.2 now automatically manages activities whose process ID (PID) changes while the business transaction is performing. It intelligently detects any PID changes during the activity, and automatically adjusts the activity to continue its monitoring. Keyboard Shortcuts for Power Users For those who work faster with the keyboard, Designer 3.2 offers the following keyboard shortcuts: ShortcutDescription Ctrl + space Video play / pause Ctrl + right-arrow Video next frame Ctrl + left-arrow Video previous frame Ctrl + E Export project Ctrl + I Import project Alt + G Generate signature Ctrl + Alt + G Generate all valid signatures for this application. Alt + V Validate Ctrl + Alt + V Validate against external signatures Undo Changes by Resetting a Literal Definition With Designer 3.2 you can reset a literal’s definition to its default by simply right-clicking and selecting Reset literal. This returns its settings to when you just added it from a recording. Reset a literal’s definition to its default state Child TopicsRelease Notes for Aternity Activity Designer 3.2.x Related Links
What's New for Aternity Activity Designer 3.2.x Aternity Activity Designer is the visual tool to create custom activities from a recording without requiring any programming knowledge. Version 3.2.x offers new functionality, features and improvements in performance. For details on the list of resolved issues for this release, see Release Notes for Aternity Activity Designer 3.2.x. Automatically Generate Documents for Your Activities Create an automatically generated HTML document along with an application's signatures. The document details the scope and content of each signature, and also includes automatic screenshots of the start and end events of each activity, for a quick understanding of the details and purpose of each signature. Business Managers and Application Owners can use the document for a quick high level summary of each activity, while signature developers can focus on the Technical Spec. section to quickly understand the technical details, like the events used, and the version of the Agent which captured the original recording. You can automatically generate one document for all activities of an application, or you can create a separate document per activity. Generate a document describing the details of all activities of an application Visualize Literals with Screenshots New screenshots in Designer's Literal Properties pane allow you to visualize the business flow, so you can associate events on the screen with the literals in the Start and Complete sections. Select the screenshot to open it, and add your own caption to include it in the auto-generated HTML document. View a screenshot of the literal and add a caption Cleaner View of Properties in the Literal Editor Now Designer hides unused literal properties from view. To activate any of them, you can right-click and select Show Removed Items (just like mobile activities from Designer 2.1). Less clutter in the literal properties Support for Updated Chrome HTML Monitoring Designer 3.2.x supports native HTML monitoring in Chrome, introduced in Aternity Agent 9.0.5. Designer automatically detects compatible recordings, and creates activities which use the new monitoring functionality. Note It displays events like clicks and key presses in the HTML tab of the events viewer. Mark Used Events for Future Reference If you already used an event in an activity, Designer 3.2 marks it with a green border to easily identify it, so you can match the upper half of the screen with the lower list of events. Select an element above to see its highlighted event below Find Relevant Events More Quickly Find the most salient events for a video frame more quickly by selecting the Gear Icon > Show Only Suggested Events. Show only events likely to be significant for activities Automatically Manage User Interruptions of an Activity Every Windows activity should define the conditions to move its status to incomplete. Typically this is when a user interrupts it with a keypress or a mouse click. If you forget to add this status, a user interrupt can cause unexpected results. Designer 3.2 adds this logic automatically to activities which use UX, by creating three standard user interruptions. They are: Any click Any keypress Application lost focus (for Agent 9.x or later, ignored by earlier Agents). Designer automatically adds the conditions for incomplete status Automatic Tracking of Process IDs Designer 3.2 now automatically manages activities whose process ID (PID) changes while the business transaction is performing. It intelligently detects any PID changes during the activity, and automatically adjusts the activity to continue its monitoring. Keyboard Shortcuts for Power Users For those who work faster with the keyboard, Designer 3.2 offers the following keyboard shortcuts: ShortcutDescription Ctrl + space Video play / pause Ctrl + right-arrow Video next frame Ctrl + left-arrow Video previous frame Ctrl + E Export project Ctrl + I Import project Alt + G Generate signature Ctrl + Alt + G Generate all valid signatures for this application. Alt + V Validate Ctrl + Alt + V Validate against external signatures Undo Changes by Resetting a Literal Definition With Designer 3.2 you can reset a literal’s definition to its default by simply right-clicking and selecting Reset literal. This returns its settings to when you just added it from a recording. Reset a literal’s definition to its default state Child TopicsRelease Notes for Aternity Activity Designer 3.2.x