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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

Control Room and Work Queues

One of the biggest drivers of deploying a robotic process into the workforce is to eliminate or at least minimize the need for human intervention. So far, each time we ran the process, we had to click on the Play button—that is an action that still requires a human. For the processes to be fully automated, robots should run them on their own, using a scheduler. In Blue Prism, all that action takes place in the control room. In this chapter, we will do the following:

  • Explore the control room
  • See how we can use the control room to get the robot to run on its own

The control room is also used for managing work queues. You could have a list of items in the work queue and a team of robots working on them at the same time. In this way, just like humans, it is possible for robots to work as a team.

We will learn how to do the following:

  • Create a...
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