# Quickstart Guide To DaBot

### Request Access

Please contact Dabot's sales team at <sales@dabot.ai> to request access to the DaBot application.

### Login

Log into the DaBot application at <https://app.dabot.ai>

### Create Your First Bot

1. [**Create a bot.**](#id-1.-create-a-bot) A bot is a program that creates your data pipeline to move data from your source to your target.
2. [**Add Destination.**](#id-2.-add-destination) A destination is a template of how you want your data to look after it is standardized. This quick start uses a generic employee onboarding dataset, and we will use the File Upload option from the local machine.
3. [**Add Source(s).** ](#id-3.-add-source-s)This quick start uses a generic employee onboarding dataset, and we will use the File Upload option from the local machine.
4. [**Preview your data.**](#id-4.-preview-bot) The preview bot provides users the ability to review the mappings before the run. It also allows users to override any mappings between a source and a destination.
5. [**Run a Bot.**](#id-5.-run-bot) After you have previewed your bot in the DaBot Application, you can run a bot to perform the file mapping across all of the datasets in your bot. This quick start uses a File Download option to publish the results.
6. [**Download results.**](#id-6.-download-results) When the bot completes, the generated results can be downloaded for use.

### **1. Create a bot**

* From the home page, click the Bot icon in the navigation bar.&#x20;

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* Click Create Bot <img src="/files/XpWJ5HCJ94NxU6nlHhwF" alt="" data-size="line">
* Enter a Name for the bot and a description (optional)

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### 2. Add Destination

* Click Add Destination.

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* Select "Upload"; this option will allow you to pick up the file from your local machine.

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* You can see the file in the Accepted files if the file is accepted.

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* Click "Upload & Close"
* You can see the file is uploaded as a destination.

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### 3. Add Source(s)

* Click Add Source.

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* Select "Upload", this option will allow you to pick up one or multiple files from your local machine.

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* If the file is accepted, you can see the file in the Accepted files; if not, it will be in the Rejected Files section.

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* Click "Upload & Close"
* You can see the files are uploaded as a Source(s).

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### 4. Preview Bot

* Once the source and destination information is entered in the Create bot screen, click “Preview Bot.”
* The preview bot allows users to review the mappings before the run and override any mappings between a source and a destination.
* Review the source-to-target mapping; if the bot prediction is not as expected, you can override the mappings in this screen.
* Any mapping override here will go to our learning process and it will be used for future mapping scenarios.
* Click here to explore the full function of the preview bot - [Preview Bot](/tuning-bots/preview-bot.md)

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### 5. Run Bot

* Select the Publish location for Run Bot

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* For the quickstart example, pick up "Download" as the publish setting and type the output file name.

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* Click Run Bot

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### 6. Download Results

* Once the run is complete, the output file can be downloaded from the Run Summary page.
* Go to Run History, select the run for which you need to download the file, and click View Summary.

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* Click the File Download Icon to start the output file.

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### Conclusion

All files are auto-mapped and processed into the expected destination format in just a few steps, and the results can be downloaded for the downstream process.

### Additional resources

* For an overview of the product; see [Product Overview](/product-overview.md).
* Learn how to tune your bots using Advanced Bot settings and Preview bot.
  * [Advanced Bot Settings](/tuning-bots/advanced-bot-settings.md).
  * [Preview Bot](/tuning-bots/preview-bot.md).


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