Web Activities Creator

The Aternity Web Activity Creator (WAC) enables to quickly and intuitively create custom activities for web applications directly from the web page. The WAC is an interactive Google Chrome extension that opens as a floating sidebar next to web page.

Process and Deliverables

Research.
Collaboration with a Product Owner.
Adobe XD Prototyping.
HTML&CSS Coding.
Icons & Illustrations
Cross-team dependencies.
UI Design implementation collaboration with Front End Developers.

Google Chrome extension

The Aternity web activities creator features allow users to define Custom Web Activities: Users can specify and create custom web activities tailored to their organization’s unique requirements.

To incorporate an Aternity web activities XML file into the Aternity application, the user should navigate to the “Activities” screen and click on “Add Activity” button to upload the XML file. The user should verify and confirm that the imported activities align with their intended use and are accurately reflected in the system. Once integrated, the user can monitor the selected applications through the “Manage Applications” screen, enabling seamless integration of Aternity web activities for monitoring or reporting purposes.

Challenges

The challenge of displaying a list of hundreds of activities and providing a contextual action for each.

Solution

Tree Preview: Organize activities in a hierarchical tree structure, where users can expand and collapse branches to view subsets of activities. This helps manage the display of large volumes of data while providing a clear overview of the organization’s structure.

Filtering: Offer robust filtering options that enable users to refine the activities list based on various criteria such as activity type, date range, or associated projects. This allows users to quickly locate specific activities of interest within the extensive list.

Sorting: Provide sorting options to allow users to arrange the activities list according to different parameters such as name, date created, or priority. This facilitates easier navigation and identification of activities based on user-defined preferences.

Procedure

Create a custom activity in the Aternity Web Activity Creator to measure the application’s response time. Users can then export this custom activity as a signature XML file and upload it to Aternity’s Managed Applications page to begin monitoring.

The Use Case

The Onboarding Screen.

After downloading a specific agent version, users can begin adding elements from any web page.

The list of activities tree offers the option to rename each activity as needed. When an activity name exceeds the page width, ellipses indicate that the name continues beyond what is currently visible. The number within the brackets indicates the count of activities when the activities tree is collapsed.

The error dialog sample.

The empty state page.