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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 FREE CHAPTER 2. Building the First Blue Prism Process 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

Taking a closer look at the toolbox

Open up the process that we executed earlier in Process Studio. Take a close look at the toolbox on the left-hand side. The items in the toolbox are called Stage types. These are the basic building blocks that make up all Blue Prism processes:

Stage Type Description
Changes the mouse to a pointer that can be used to select stages on the canvas to move, expand, or delete them
Changes the mouse to enable linking between stages
Creates a block for grouping stages or data items
Adds a sub process to the process flow
Adds a page (either new or existing) to the process flow
Adds a business object action
A decision diamond for splitting the flow based on an evaluation criteria
A multi-decision tree that splits the flow into multiple paths based on a specified criteria
A formula to update and store values back to a data...
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