Describe the App You Want and Let the AI Helper Build It
See how to set up the AI helper once, describe a session in your own words, check the outline it drafts, and build it (this recording uses a test stand-in for the helper).
What you will learn
- Find the AI helper setup card and see what it downloads and what it can see
- Describe a session in your own words, with the example chips and What it can use
- Check the outline the helper writes before anything is built
- Build it, try the session on trial, then keep or discard it
Transcript
In this guide you will see how to describe a session in your own words and let the A I helper draft it for you to check. One note first: the real helper is a large model that is not available where this guide was recorded, so a test stand-in plays its part. It always writes the same Receiving example, whatever you type. What you see is the real Studio, but the draft itself is not what your own words would give.
The AI helper is optional. It runs on the StepVane PC, so nothing is sent anywhere, and there is no account and no fee. The first time, an owner or admin sees this notice on the Apps page. Press New app to look at where the helper is used.
Give the app a name, press Next, and pick Describe it. Instead of a ready-made page, the worker session will be built from what you say.
Because the helper is not set up yet, a card appears. It says what the helper does: it reads your description and fills in the session for you to check, and it only sees your description and the names of your tables, never your data. It suggests the helper that fits this PC, here the standard one, a 2.3 GB download. An owner or admin ticks the license box and presses Set up the AI helper.
The download then runs on the server, with a bar and Pause and Continue buttons, and you can keep working or even close Studio. When the file is whole, StepVane starts the helper once on this PC and has it write a tiny test session. Only a helper that passed this test is called ready. If you would rather not use the helper, Skip, answer a few questions instead builds the session with no AI at all. This recording does not wait for the real download: the stand-in is set up now, behind the scenes.
Now the helper is ready. Press New app, name it, pick Describe it, and press Create the app and describe it. The Describe your session dialog opens, and a chip in the corner says AI helper: ready.
In the box, say what the worker does, in order: what they scan or type, what is checked, and where the data goes. The chips under the box, A receiving, A count and An inspection, fill in an example to start from. Here we use A receiving.
Under What it can use, you see the names the helper is given: this app's tables, and its connections. Never what is in them, and never passwords. Untick anything the helper should not use. And API documentation lets you attach an OpenAPI or Postman file, when the session sends to a web service.
Press Write it. The dialog says how long the real helper takes, about twenty seconds, and shows what it has written as it goes: the pages, the fields, and where the data is sent. Here the stand-in writes its fixed Receiving example. We turned off the option to ask a few questions first, to go straight to the writing.
Then comes Check the outline. It says what was decided for you, such as a photo that shows only for a damaged item, and it lists the session, its pages, and what the worker fills in. Change anything you like here. Nothing has been built yet. Change the description goes back to your words, and Discard closes the dialog and changes nothing.
When it looks right, press Build it. The session is made with the same building blocks you would use by hand, and it is on trial: a banner says it was made from your description, with Keep it and Discard. Try it in the simulator, change anything, and then keep it.
That is how you describe a session. Set up the A I helper once, describe the session in your own words, check the outline, and build it. Nothing is built until you press Build it, and you can always answer a few questions instead of using the helper.
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