Refresh
Hexus offers several ways for content maintenance options when your UI changes. Here are the options.
Replacing One Screen in a Tour
To replace a screen in a tour:
- Click on the “Replace” button in the left menu. This will open the URL to that screen and the Chrome extension.
- You can recapture the screen with the updated UI or replace it by capturing any other screen.
Alternatively, you can:
- Delete the screen from the video.
- Add a new step.
- Upload a new screen PNG or JPG.
Replacing a Tour Manually
To rerecord a published tour:
- Go to the “Template Settings” menu.
- Click on “Refresh (Beta)”.
- Select “Re-record”. This will open the URL to the beginning of the screen and the Chrome extension.
- You can recapture the tour with the updated UI or replace it by capturing any other flow.
Replacing a Tour Automatically
Tip: Run a test first to check if the steps can be auto-refreshed.
To automatically rerecord a published tour:
- Go to the “Template Settings” menu.
- Click on “Refresh”.
- Select “Auto-Refresh”. This will open the URL to the beginning of the screen, and our bot will auto-capture the same flow with the updated UI.
Watch the tour below to see this in action.
Reviewing your published flows
There are a few ways you can review published flows.
a. Testing a flow
You can run a test to check if the steps in the published flow are still valid with the latest UI. Our bot opens a new tab in your browser and runs through the same steps.
Note: You must be in the same logged in / logged out state as the original capture to let the bot run the test.
To run a test,
- Go to ‘Template Settings’
- Select ‘Refresh (Beta)’
- Click on ‘Test Flow’
✅ If the test is a success, you will see a success message like this:
❌ If the bot is unable to proceed after a certain step due to a change in the UI, then you will see a pop up as shown below in the same tab:
Additionally, you will see this message in the ‘Template Settings’ modal.
b. Search for a flow
Hexus indexes all your flow titles, captions, URLs and UI elements so that you can search for a particular flow by the elements that were captured in it. You can start a search in your dashboard, and check the box to search across the entire catalog.
- Search by URL: If you need to update a screen that appears across many flows, you can simply search by URL.
- Search by UI element: If you need to update flows that contain a specific CTA, you can simply search by the name of the CTA.
- Search by flow title or caption: You can find a flow by searching for the text in the title or in any of the captions on the hotspots or text-to-speech.
c. Notifications
You can set up in-app notifications or email notifications as a reminder to manually review your flows at your desired frequency. For example, if your team has a major release every quarter, you can set up quarterly notifications to review your flows and check if they are up to date. Here’s how you can set up notifications: