Summary
In this chapter, we looked at the Microsoft Office extension, PDF extension, and technology-specific extensions. These extensions provide classes and methods that can be used to filter and read emails, respond to emails, read information from Excel files or write to an Excel file, manage Word documents, or extract information in PDF documents.
Most of the methods that are provided by the SDK libraries or classes are already available as activities that can be used directly in the workflows. More activities are being added with new SAP Intelligent RPA releases to support the methods that can only be called with the SDK library in the source code. It is always better to check the latest activities list and use them in your workflows before using the object and methods directly in your code. We also looked at the Custom activity, which can be used to add code manually to the steps. Try creating the ProcessUnreadEmails
and ProcessExcelAttachments
workflows, adding the Custom...