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title: Estimator Dashboard
slug: blueprint/estimator-dashboard
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createdAt: 2026-04-17T18:28:53.959Z
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The **Estimator Dashboard** simulates a PAD export for your selected scope and produces effort estimates for migrating each Call Tree — including how much Blueprint saves versus manual rewrite and how much work remains to bring migrated code to production. 

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ⓘ The Estimator supports **Per Call Tree View** only.
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# Accessing the Estimator Dashboard

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Select **RPA Dashboards and Reports** from the navigation bar
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Click **Estimator**
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Click **Change Scope** in the top right, select your scope, and click **OK**. See Using Scope and View
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ⓘ Blueprint simulates a PAD export to generate Estimator metrics. Calculations are not run automatically by default once a scope is selected, initiate a calculation job to populate stats. While a calculation is in progress, Estimator stats are unavailable. Monitor status in Jobs. See [Jobs](docId\:GgDAFdipIsMxVTx9xlXAo) for details.
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# Dashboard Controls

- **Recalculate Estimations** — reruns calculations after a Blueprint upgrade or after changes to processes in the current scope to ensure estimates reflect the latest mappings
- **Refresh** — reloads current data in the dashboard

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# Adjusting Estimation Parameters

The center of the dashboard compares two effort estimates side by side: **Without Blueprint (manual rewrite)** on the left and **With Blueprint (automated conversion)** on the right. Both estimates are driven by parameters you can adjust to match your team's capacity and working speed. As you change any parameter, the estimates, the hrs saved and % faster indicators, and the Effort breakdown update in real time.

## Without Blueprint — Manual Rewrite

This panel estimates the effort to rewrite the selected scope by hand, with no Blueprint assistance. It multiplies the total **actions** in scope by the rate at which your team can manually recreate them in PAD.

- **actions/hr** — the number of source actions your team can manually rewrite per hour. Set this to reflect your team's realistic manual rewrite speed for the source platform. 

The resulting **Manual rewrite total effort** is the baseline against which Blueprint's savings are measured.

## With Blueprint — Automated Conversion

This panel estimates the effort to bring Blueprint's migrated PAD code to a production-ready state. It shows the **Estimated completion effort**, along with **hrs saved** and **% faster** relative to the manual rewrite baseline.

- **Team size** — select how many people will work on completing the migration (**1**, **2**, **3**, **5**, or **5+**). This does not change the total effort in hours; it spreads that effort across the team to produce the estimated calendar time, shown to the right as an approximate number of **weeks**.

## Effort Breakdown

The **Effort breakdown** divides the remaining post-migration work into three categories, each shown with its item count, an adjustable **fixes/hr** rate, and the resulting effort in hours. The donut chart visualizes how the total effort is distributed across the three categories.

For each category, set **fixes/hr** to the number of items a team member can resolve per hour. Effort is calculated as items ÷ fixes/hr.

- **TODOs** — items flagged with Blueprint TODO: comments that a user must address to make the bot production-ready
- **Compiler errors** — errors in the generated PAD code that must be resolved for the flow to compile
- **Selectors** — UI selectors that may need attention after migration

For selectors, an additional field sets the **% needing re-spy** — the portion of selectors expected to require re-spying (re-capturing the target element) rather than a simpler fix. Raising this percentage increases the selector effort.

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# Enabling Automatic Calculations in Estimator

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By default, Estimator calculations are not triggered automatically on import. To enable automatic calculation on import:

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Open **Settings** from the navigation bar
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Expand **RPA Management**
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Select **Dashboards and Reports**
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Check **Automatically Calculate Estimations on Import**
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