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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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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

Receiving emails

The next most common activity that robots do with emails is receive them. Emails are often the starting point of many processes, and the following list provides some examples:

  • Reports received by email are to be scrubbed, processed, and filed
  • Orders received by email require data-entry into another system

This is why Blue Prism has provided not just one, but at least three different actions for searching email in the Inbox:

  • Get Received Items (Basic): This is the easiest to use. It covers the simplest scenarios, where you just want to look for emails based on the common search criteria such as sender name, sender email, received date, subject, and message.
  • Get Received Items (Advanced): This expects you to provide a search filter in the form of a text string. You need to understand how to build the query before using this action.
  • Get Received Items (Expert...
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