Create a Project to Create an Offline Model

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Overview

2. How to create an offline model ?

1. Overview

This article provides you the steps to create a project to create an offline model using node configuration.

2. How to create a project to create an offline model ?

Perform the following: 

1. Login to algoshack.net and select algoQA button on the Status bar. 
2. In the Create project window, enter the appropriate name and select Automation type from the Automation drop-down list.
3. Click Create Project button to view the main canvas screen.
4. Alternatively, you can either browse for the scraped file in the CSV format or drag-and-drop it to view the automatic placement of nodes. Click the "Browse files or drag them here" button or the cloud icon to upload the file.
5. In the left pane, select More Menu on the appropriate Node configuration folder and select Upload to upload the downloaded .csv file (scraped file).
6. Click Submit.
7. In the Project Explorer page, drag-and-drop the node to the main canvas.
8. Click the each node to edit. In the Node Name text box, enter the same name as the page name. Similarly, add the appropriate node names for the remaining nodes and use the connectors (Link-out to Link-in) to connect the nodes. Node Name can accept alphanumeric, single space between words and underscore, starting with alphabet.
   Ensure to provide unique node name, if you don't provide a unique name, then the following error messages are displayed:
   Note that when you are configuring the node, make sure to enter a unique feature name to avoid duplicates. This is necessary when configuring a nested feature or entering a feature name for different nodes or the same node within a scenario. Otherwise, you will see the following error message as displayed in the screenshot:
9. Upon successful node configuration, you can see all the UI elements within the feature. By default, one feature will be configured.
10. In the required feature, update the attributes of UI element, such as control name, control value, navigation, business rules, test data or control value and locator. Similarly, repeat the step to update the attributes for all other UI elements.
11. On the Main canvas, click Save.
12. In the Main Canvas, you can 
    • edit a node
    • delete or remove a node by clicking the Remove button
    • zoom the view in and out by clicking  the Zoom in and Zoom out buttons
    • save the changes 
    • cancel the changes if you wish not to save the configuration changes for a specific node