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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

Tightening the match criteria

Let's tighten up the match criteria for the Search textbox to make it more robust to changes on Amazon's site. Since the developers at Amazon have used the ID and Input Identifier attributes to uniquely label the element, we shall get Blue Prism to use these two attributes to look for the search box. Let's tighten the match criteria further:

  1. Back in Application Modeller, select Textbox – Search. Sort the Attributes according to the Match column such that the matching attributes are listed at the top.
  2. Uncheck all the match criteria, except for the following:
    • Input Identifier
    • ID
  3. Click Highlight. Check that the Search textbox can still be found on the screen.
  4. Click Apply to save the changes without closing the window.

Now, we have made the robot a lot more resilient to changes to the target website. Unless Amazon changes the...

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