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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

Summary

In this chapter, we saw how pages are used to compartmentalize the logic of the process so that it can be broken down into smaller and maintainable units. We added inputs and outputs and saw how to pass information from page to page.

Next, we took a look at data items and observed how they are used to store all kinds of information that is used in a process. If we needed to store multiple rows of data, we use a collection instead of a single data item.

We also studied the all-important concept of loops. Robots were built to perform repeatable tasks, and loops are right in the centre of the action, getting robots to perform the same set of instructions over and over again.

Finally, we used the built-in validation tool to help check for any syntax errors that may have crept into the process.

In the next chapter, we will look at the remaining stage types used in processes...

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