Video Introduction

Welcome to the Pia Automation Development video series! 🚀 This series aims to provide you with a basic understanding of Automation Development by breaking it down into various concepts.

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Part 0: Introducing the development environment

Explore the development environment and the Pia chatbot. 🧩💻

• Introducing packages, activities and forms
• What is a sandbox?
• Navigation of the Partner Portal
• Integrating with the Pia chatbot

Part 1: How to create a package

Learn how to create a basic package. 📦🔧

• Create a basic package
• Switching to a sandbox
• Introduction to conditions: (client filter, chat condition)
• Introduction to activities (Chat interaction)

Part 2: Get user details

Discover how to handle inputs and outputs, and pass data to the chat. 🙋‍♂️🔍

• Create an activity and specify an alias
• Activity inputs and outputs
• Output data from the new activity to the chat
• Pass output referencing the alias

Part 3: Collect details with a form

Create forms with textboxes, embed them in chats, and leverage form output in your automation. 📝✏️

• Create a form with a textbox
• Embed a form within a chat
• Using form output in your automation

Part 4: Popout forms

Execute PowerShell commands, populate forms through scripting, and access form properties. 📋💡🖥️

• Creating read-only form fields
• Introducing inline powershell
• Executing powershell on Pia vs client environment
• Populating forms by script
• Get form's static name from properties.

Part 5: Querying the environment

Retrieve users from Active Directory and leverage data to populate forms efficiently. 🕵️‍♀️🔎

• Get users from active directory
• The tags dropdown form field type
• Using data retrieved to populate form

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