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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

Getting to know the Blue Prism Process Studio

Most RPA programs today are code-free (or at least low code), and Blue Prism is no different. It provides a Visio-like canvas to sequence each step in the process. You design a flowchart that contains a sequence of steps. You can choose from a suite of ready-made actions what each step is supposed to do (for example, click a link or press a button). Finally, the steps are linked together with a definite start and endpoint.

Let's take a quick tour of what it's comprised of:

  • Top menu has all the commands and tasks that we will need to create our processes.
  • Toolbar gives us quick access to commonly used commands and tasks.
  • Toolbox contains the ready-to-use actions that you can drag and drop onto the canvas.
  • Canvas is where we will draw the process flow diagram. Also notice that the first and only page that we have opened is...
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Robotic Process Automation with Blue Prism Quick Start Guide
Published in: Nov 2018
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781789610444
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