AI Assist Automation - Getting Started

Start AI Assist Automation

• Start Sahi Dashboard.
• If Sahi Pro AI Assist add-on is to used with the Sahi Pro Desktop Add-on, the controller can be launched by clicking the Desktop icon on the Sahi Dashboard.
• If Sahi Pro AI Assist add-on is to used with the Sahi Pro Browser, open any browser from the dashboard and launch the controller (either click on the "Sahi Controller" link OR press CTRL and ALT keys together and then double click).

Using the Controller

• On the Controller, go the the Record tab.
• The Controller can be used to capture the image and the text. User can identify, click, choose Other Actions, or user can even Test an expression from Evaluate Expression to perform an action on the application.

• To capture an image:
  Select Image Recognition from AI Assist dropdown. If needed, input the required delay (in seconds) before capturing. Press the Capture button. Select desired area to capture image. Give the image name. You may select one of the already present folders/sub-folders from the Image Directory dropdown to save the image. The image can be saved in a new folder by providing "NewFolderName/ImageName" in the Image Name textfield).
  • The Accessor in the controller will populate the Sahi accessor for the image.
• The Open button in the controller can be used to open the images directory in file explorer.

• Using capture for text:
  Select Optical Character Recognition from AI Assist dropdown. If needed, input required delay (in seconds) before capturing. Press the Capture button. Select desired area to get the text in it.
  • The Accessor in the controller will populate the Sahi accessor for the text.
• To identify text or a saved image, select Optical Character Recognition or Image Recognition from AI Assist dropdown and press the CTRL key, hover over the text or the image.
• Accessor: Shows the Sahi accessor for that element

Evaluate Expression

Evaluating Application expression through Controller. It helps while identifying elements or while debugging.

• Put a valid Sahi expression in the Evaluate Expression box
• Click on → The result will be seen in the bottom box.
infoNote: Selecting some text and pressing '→' will only evaluate the selected text.

View captured image

If any script is opened in editor and has _aiImage API used in it, the image which is passed as the imagePath argument can be viewed from the editor. There are two ways.

• CTRL clicking the imagepath argument in script will open the image viewer.

• Open the context panel for _aiImage by CTRL clicking on the _aiImage in script. Clicking the view button (next to the imagepath argument in context panel) will open the image viewer.

• The Open Parent Folder link in the Image Viewer can be used to open the file explorer where the image is located.

Playback

From Controller

Once a script is recorded, it can be played back from the Controller Playback tab itself.

• Choose the script.
• Click on Play to playback the script.
• Click on Logs to view the logs of the played back script.

From the Editor

You can playback the script from the Editor as well.

• Choose the script/suite/scenario from the Editor and click on the Playback button.
• Choose either of the two options - 'Run in single machine' or 'distributed (multiple machines)'.
• Press Run to playback the test.

Refer Editor Playback for a better understanding.

AI Assist Accessor APIs

AI Assist Accessor APIs facilitate artificial intelligence based automation.