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Robotic Process Automation with Blue Prism Quick Start Guide

By : Lim Mei Ying
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Robotic Process Automation with Blue Prism Quick Start Guide

By: Lim Mei Ying

Overview of this book

Robotic process automation is a form of business process automation where user-configured robots can emulate the actions of users. Blue Prism is a pioneer of robotic process automation software, and this book gives you a solid foundation to programming robots with Blue Prism. If you've been tasked with automating work processes, but don't know where to start, this is the book for you! You begin with the business case for robotic process automation, and then move to implementation techniques with the leading software for enterprise automation, Blue Prism. You will become familiar with the Blue Prism Studio by creating your first process. You will build upon this by adding pages, data items, blocks, collections, and loops. You will build more complex processes by learning about actions, decisions, choices, and calculations. You will move on to teach your robot to interact with applications such as Internet Explorer. This can be used for spying elements that identify what your robot needs to interact with on the screen. You will build the logic behind a business objects by using read, write, and wait stages. You will then enable your robot to read and write to Excel and CSV files. This will finally lead you to train your robot to read and send emails in Outlook. You will learn about the Control Room, where you will practice adding items to a queue, processing the items and updating the work status. Towards the end of this book you will also teach your robot to handle errors and deal with exceptions. The book concludes with tips and coding best practices for Blue Prism.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Try it yourself – clicking Add to Cart

Alright, we have entered the keywords, triggered the search, and clicked on the item that we want to purchase. All that needs to be done is to click on the Add to Cart button. In this section, we will put to use all the knowledge that we have gained in the earlier sections to build up the logic for clicking the Add to Cart button.

On the Amazon site, most products have an Add to Cart button on the product page. This is the easiest scenario for the robot. It just needs to click Add to Cart and it's done. However, some product pages do not have an Add to Cart button. Instead, Amazon has a subscription scheme for groceries. They prefer that you make repeated purchases by automatically having the item delivered to your house on a regular basis. While this is a really neat idea, our robot will need to make a decision about what to...