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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

Checking for errors using the validation tool

We have completed building a draft of our process. Have we made any errors? Blue Prism is shipped with a validation tool to help us look for any configuration errors that we may have unwittingly made. Well, it's not going to go through your code to check to see whether the Robot bought the correct products or emailed the correct people. It's more like the spelling and grammar check tool in Microsoft Word. Instead of spelling and grammar checks, the validation tool looks for configuration errors in our process, such as:

  • Stages that are not linked to anything
  • Missing data items
  • Missing business objects
  • Missing links
  • Missing pages

Let's see if there are any configuration errors with the process so far:

  1. First, let's generate an error. Go to the Email Notification Page. Delete the link between the Start and End stage...
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