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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

Actions have inputs and outputs too

All throughout the build of our Search action diagram, we have hardcoded the search keywords to be "Low Fat Granola Cereal". That worked well for testing and building up the Business Object. However, we aren't going to restrict our shopping to just that one thing. In our original design, the purchasing process gets the list of shopping from an external list (say, that piece of paper stuck on the fridge). We should feed that list to the Search action, instead of fixing it to "Low Fat Granola Cereal".

To do so, we add inputs to the action, just like we did so earlier for processes, as shown in the following steps:

  1. Open the Search action diagram for editing.
  2. Double-click on the Start stage. In the Start Properties, click Add. A new row in the Inputs list is added.
  3. In the Inputs field, enter the following values:
    • Name...
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