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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

Using dynamic match attributes

We entered the keywords, triggered the search, got some results, sifted through the results, and finally found the item that we want to purchase. How can we get the robot to click on it to get to the product page so that we can add it to the cart?

The problem with the spying methods that we have utilized so far is that it assumes that the item that we want to click on is fixed: if we just want the first item on the list, we just spy it and get the robot to click on it.

In the case of the search results, the position of the item that we want to purchase may vary. Today, it is found in row 3. Tomorrow, it may be in row 5. It is not fixed. The final answer depends on what appears in the listing at the time the search is triggered.

How can we pass the information about which row to click on to the robot? To do this, we need to perform a dynamic match...

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