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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

Introducing the control room

We have been running processes by clicking on the Run button. It does a really neat job of showing us how the process moves through each stage. However, there is a problem with that approach; it still requires someone to click on it. In production mode, the process will be run by the robots unattended. To do so, we will use the control room. From Blue Prism Studio, click on the Control tab. The control room loads as shown in the following screenshot. By default, the main screen loaded is Session Management:

  1. The left-hand panel lists all the sub-menus available in the control room. We will go through the main options in just a bit.
  2. As this is the Session Management screen, we see on the right a list of the processes available. At this point, the list is empty.
  3. We also see the list of all available resources (computers acting as robots) registered with...
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