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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

Pages

The first stage type that we used in our process is page. Theoretically, we could build the entire process within the Main page. However, as you can imagine, as the process grows in complexity and length, putting everything on a single page is going to be messy.

Think of pages as cabinet compartments that help us to organize the process into smaller parts. Imagine if you stuffed all your clothes into a single compartment in your wardrobe. It's going to take some time to get what you need when everything collapses into a pile of clothes. If you had separate drawers for shirts, another for pants, and perhaps more for socks and towels, if you ever needed to quickly grab a change of clothes, you will likely be able to find it much quicker.

The same thing can be said of pages. In our example, we have organized the process into three sub-pages:

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