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Robotic Process Automation with Blue Prism Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Robotic Process Automation with Blue Prism Quick Start Guide Create software robots and automate business processes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789610444
Length 232 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Lim Mei Ying Lim Mei Ying
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Case for Robotic Process Automation 2. Building the First Blue Prism Process FREE CHAPTER 3. Pages, Data Items, Blocks, Collections, and Loops 4. Actions, Decisions, Choices, and Calculations 5. Implementing Business Objects 6. Spying Elements 7. Write, Wait, and Read 8. Working with Excel 9. Sending and Receiving Emails 10. Control Room and Work Queues 11. Exception Handling 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Expected and unexpected exceptions

So far, we have tried to program the process with the happy path in mind. For example, in the Weekly purchase of groceries process, we got the robot to read the shopping list, look for the item on the Amazon site, and added it to the shopping cart. As you ran the Weekly purchasing of groceries process (as above), did you encounter any exceptions?

Exceptions may be expected or unexpected. Sometimes, we are able to predict the kind of errors that the robot may encounter. Some examples of expected exceptions are as follows:

  • The Add to Cart button is disabled. Amazon may not ship the product to the country in which you reside, or the product is out of stock, or perhaps the robot just does not understand the purchasing scheme of the product (for instance, you have to buy two items instead of one).
  • The search was not able to locate the product.
  • The...
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