User Interface

Introduction

The user interface of Assistant Buddy has the following components.

Sl#	Name	Description
1	Title Bar	You can view and control your Assistant Buddy settings from here
2	Entity Panel	Select the Entity to view the data corresponding to that entity
3	Data Panel	View the data of the selected Entity from the Entity Panel
4	Action Panel	You can take specific action from here. This panel is context-sensitive and depends on the Entity selected from the Entity Panel

Title Bar

You can perform the following operations from here:

• View and configure your Assistant Buddy settings.
• Sign in or sign out from the Control Room. For more information on signing into Control Room, please refer: Signing into Control Room

Assistant Buddy Settings

You can open the settings dialog by clicking on the logged-in user ID under Title Bar and selecting Settings.

Storing Logs and Jobs - Enterprise Edition

• Store Logs either in local or Control Room Database - You can configure Assistant Buddy to utilize either the Control Room database or a local database to store all the Logs corresponding to the jobs executed by the buddy.

  • Store Logs in Control Room

    

    OR

  • Store Logs in Local Database.

note

When selecting Database for the Data Store option in the settings dialog, only provide a local path for the File Path. Currently, we do not support Network paths for creating the database file.

License Terms - Enterprise Edition

• You can open the License Terms by clicking on the logged-in user ID under Title Bar and selecting License terms.

  

• You can click on Sign Out by clicking on the logged-in user ID under Title Bar

  

Storing Logs and Jobs - Professional Edition

• Local Database to store Logs - You can configure a local database in Assistant Buddy settings to store all the Logs corresponding to the jobs executed.

  

License Terms and Status - Professional Edition

• You can open the License Terms by clicking on the logged-in user ID under Title Bar and selecting License terms.

  

• You can click on License Status by clicking on the logged-in user ID under Title Bar

  

Entity Panel

The Entity Panel allows the user to select the Entity and perform a specific operation on the selected Entity. Here is the list of Assistant Buddy entities.

Processes

It will list all the processes that Assistant Buddy can execute. You can run a process on a demand basis.

Enterprise: Only those processes owned by or shared with the user associated with the Assistant Buddy will be fetched from the Control Room and listed.

Professional: The processes imported under this Assistant Buddy.

note

If you try to import a new process when the process count is already equal to the license count, you will receive an error Process count exceeds the licensed count. Please top-up your license and try again.

In these cases, you have to either top-up your licenses to import new processes or delete some of the imported processes and make licenses for the new process.

Triggers

Triggers enable processes to be executed based on specific events. Assistant Buddy supports the following types of triggers.

• File System Trigger - associated with the events happening on a local file system
• Database Trigger - associated with the events happening on configured Database
• Process Trigger - associated with the events happening on starting and stopping of computer processes
• Hot Key Trigger - associated with pressing of keyboard Keys along with the combination of modifiers

You can manage your Assistant Buddy triggers, such as viewing, modifying, and deleting them from here.

Jobs

A job is an instance of process execution. You can view all the jobs the Assistant Buddy executes and the logs associated with that job execution.

Logs

The Logs that are associated with the Assistant Buddy. Each job might log multiple messages. These log messages get stored as part of Logs inside the SQL Lite database on the local system by default. Designers can extend the logging capabilities by pushing logs through WriteLog activity. IntelliBuddies supports the following severity levels when logging a message.

Enterprise: You can push the logs into the Control Room database.

Data Panel

The Data Panel displays the data corresponding to the selected Entity inside the Entity Panel. Shows the data in the grid by representing each row one item under that Entity.

Action Panel

The Action Panel provides various operations for users on the selected Entity.