In this chapter, we have completed the first draft of the purchasing process. In doing so, we used stages that are key building blocks of any process. We first learned how to use the built-in business objects within Blue Prism to perform actions, such as counting the number of rows in a collection. Next, we used the decision stage to teach the robot how to make small decisions that will always result in a yes-no answer. For more complicated decisions, such as matching the name to the email address of a person, we used the choices stage. Finally, we gave calculations a spin and used it to generate the email message that we will send back to the requester.
While it is cool to have ready-to-use business objects at our disposal, nothing beats having the flexibility to build your own and extend the functionality that Blue Prism provides out of the box. We will look at implementing...