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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

What are work queues?

Earlier, we saw how a process can be assigned to run on a selected resource in the control room. What if the process is working on a very long to-do list that is taking the robot a long time to clear everything? There is a way to split up the work between multiple robots using work queues.

Imagine going to your favorite coffee shop to order that morning cup of coffee. You step into the shop and see a long line of people waiting to place their order at the cashier. Thankfully, there are two cashiers open. The queue moves along twice as fast. Using the same analogy, you can add more robots to work on the same process to speed things up.

In this way, robots can work as a team. Let's see what a work queue looks like in Blue Prism by recreating the preceding coffee shop scenario.

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