Robotic Process Automation with Blue Prism Quick Start Guide : Create Software Robots and Automate Business Processes.
Ying, Lim Mei.
Robotic Process Automation with Blue Prism Quick Start Guide : Create Software Robots and Automate Business Processes. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (223 pages)
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- About Packt -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The Case for Robotic Process Automation -- What is robotic process automation? -- Finding a process suitable for automation -- Calculating time savings -- The process definition document -- Manual process description and target systems -- Process diagram -- Process details -- Exceptions -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Building the First Blue Prism Process -- Inside a Blue Prism system -- Launching the Blue Prism interactive client -- Creating the first process -- Getting to know the Blue Prism Process Studio -- Adding pages -- Editing pages -- Renaming a process -- Saving a process -- Running the process for the first time -- Stepping through the process -- Join the Blue Prism community -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Pages, Data Items, Blocks, Collections, and Loops -- Taking a closer look at the toolbox -- Pages -- Inputs and outputs -- Adding outputs to a page -- Adding inputs to a page -- Passing information from page to page -- Data items -- Adding a data item -- Making a data item visible across pages -- Blocks -- Collections -- Defining a collection -- Loops -- Adding a loop -- Checking for errors using the validation tool -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Actions, Decisions, Choices, and Calculations -- Actions -- Adding an action to count the number of rows in a collection -- Decisions -- Adding a decision to decide whether to proceed to purchase the items -- Building an expression -- Validating expressions -- Evaluating expressions -- Choices -- Using a choice to determine the email address of the requester -- Calculations -- Calculating the email notification message -- Multi calc -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Implementing Business Objects -- What is a business object? -- Creating a business object -- Organizing Business Objects into folders. Taking a look at Business Studio -- Additional stages available in the Business Studio toolbox -- Ready, start, action! -- Renaming actions -- Introducing the Application Modeller -- Using the Navigate stage -- Launching applications -- Testing the launch action -- Terminating applications -- Testing the terminate action -- Publishing an action -- Using a custom Business Object from a process -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Spying Elements -- Spying elements on a web page -- How does spying work? -- Tweaking the match criteria -- Tightening the match criteria -- Adding elements -- Categorizing elements -- More spy modes -- UI Automation mode -- When spying by identifying does not work -- UI Automation navigator -- Surface automation with region mode -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Write, Wait, and Read -- Creating the search action -- Writing to text boxes -- Clicking buttons -- The Wait stage -- Always use a Wait stage whenever the screen changes -- The Read stage -- Reading the search results -- Using dynamic match attributes -- Actions have inputs and outputs too -- Try it yourself - clicking Add to Cart -- Putting it all together -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Working with Excel -- Reading the shopping list from Microsoft Excel -- Importing the Excel VBO -- Using MS Excel VBO to open, show, and close Microsoft Excel -- Before we begin -- Opening Excel -- Closing Excel -- What is the MS Excel VBO made up of? -- What is Microsoft Excel VBA? -- Opening an Excel file -- Reading an entire worksheet into a collection -- Writing to a cell -- Considerations for comma separated values (CSV) -- Converting a collection to CSV -- Converting a CSV to a collection -- Using the MS Excel VBO with CSV files -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Sending and Receiving Emails -- Using the MS Outlook VBO to manage emails -- Sending emails -- Formatting emails -- Sending attachments. Receiving emails -- Basic -- Advanced -- Expert -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Control Room and Work Queues -- Introducing the control room -- Publishing a process to the control room -- Running a process in the control room manually -- Scheduling processes -- What are work queues? -- Creating a work queue -- Adding items to the queue -- Getting the next item in the queue -- Checking for more items in the queue -- Marking the item as complete -- Updating the status -- Marking the item as an exception -- Tagging the item -- Filtering items -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Exception Handling -- Expected and unexpected exceptions -- Raising exceptions -- Handling exceptions -- The recover stage -- The resume stage -- Using the recover and resume stages to gracefully handle exceptions -- Using blocks to group stages that share a common error handling routine -- Handling unexpected errors -- Debugging and troubleshooting from the control room -- Recap - running the process from the control room -- Log viewer -- Controlling what gets logged -- Searching for errors -- Exporting to Excel -- Summary -- Other Books You May Enjoy -- Index.
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.
9781789614466
Business enterprises-Computer networks-Software.
Electronic books.
HD30.37 .Y564 2018
658.4
Robotic Process Automation with Blue Prism Quick Start Guide : Create Software Robots and Automate Business Processes. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (223 pages)
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- About Packt -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: The Case for Robotic Process Automation -- What is robotic process automation? -- Finding a process suitable for automation -- Calculating time savings -- The process definition document -- Manual process description and target systems -- Process diagram -- Process details -- Exceptions -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Building the First Blue Prism Process -- Inside a Blue Prism system -- Launching the Blue Prism interactive client -- Creating the first process -- Getting to know the Blue Prism Process Studio -- Adding pages -- Editing pages -- Renaming a process -- Saving a process -- Running the process for the first time -- Stepping through the process -- Join the Blue Prism community -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Pages, Data Items, Blocks, Collections, and Loops -- Taking a closer look at the toolbox -- Pages -- Inputs and outputs -- Adding outputs to a page -- Adding inputs to a page -- Passing information from page to page -- Data items -- Adding a data item -- Making a data item visible across pages -- Blocks -- Collections -- Defining a collection -- Loops -- Adding a loop -- Checking for errors using the validation tool -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Actions, Decisions, Choices, and Calculations -- Actions -- Adding an action to count the number of rows in a collection -- Decisions -- Adding a decision to decide whether to proceed to purchase the items -- Building an expression -- Validating expressions -- Evaluating expressions -- Choices -- Using a choice to determine the email address of the requester -- Calculations -- Calculating the email notification message -- Multi calc -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Implementing Business Objects -- What is a business object? -- Creating a business object -- Organizing Business Objects into folders. Taking a look at Business Studio -- Additional stages available in the Business Studio toolbox -- Ready, start, action! -- Renaming actions -- Introducing the Application Modeller -- Using the Navigate stage -- Launching applications -- Testing the launch action -- Terminating applications -- Testing the terminate action -- Publishing an action -- Using a custom Business Object from a process -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Spying Elements -- Spying elements on a web page -- How does spying work? -- Tweaking the match criteria -- Tightening the match criteria -- Adding elements -- Categorizing elements -- More spy modes -- UI Automation mode -- When spying by identifying does not work -- UI Automation navigator -- Surface automation with region mode -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Write, Wait, and Read -- Creating the search action -- Writing to text boxes -- Clicking buttons -- The Wait stage -- Always use a Wait stage whenever the screen changes -- The Read stage -- Reading the search results -- Using dynamic match attributes -- Actions have inputs and outputs too -- Try it yourself - clicking Add to Cart -- Putting it all together -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Working with Excel -- Reading the shopping list from Microsoft Excel -- Importing the Excel VBO -- Using MS Excel VBO to open, show, and close Microsoft Excel -- Before we begin -- Opening Excel -- Closing Excel -- What is the MS Excel VBO made up of? -- What is Microsoft Excel VBA? -- Opening an Excel file -- Reading an entire worksheet into a collection -- Writing to a cell -- Considerations for comma separated values (CSV) -- Converting a collection to CSV -- Converting a CSV to a collection -- Using the MS Excel VBO with CSV files -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Sending and Receiving Emails -- Using the MS Outlook VBO to manage emails -- Sending emails -- Formatting emails -- Sending attachments. Receiving emails -- Basic -- Advanced -- Expert -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Control Room and Work Queues -- Introducing the control room -- Publishing a process to the control room -- Running a process in the control room manually -- Scheduling processes -- What are work queues? -- Creating a work queue -- Adding items to the queue -- Getting the next item in the queue -- Checking for more items in the queue -- Marking the item as complete -- Updating the status -- Marking the item as an exception -- Tagging the item -- Filtering items -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Exception Handling -- Expected and unexpected exceptions -- Raising exceptions -- Handling exceptions -- The recover stage -- The resume stage -- Using the recover and resume stages to gracefully handle exceptions -- Using blocks to group stages that share a common error handling routine -- Handling unexpected errors -- Debugging and troubleshooting from the control room -- Recap - running the process from the control room -- Log viewer -- Controlling what gets logged -- Searching for errors -- Exporting to Excel -- Summary -- Other Books You May Enjoy -- Index.
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.
9781789614466
Business enterprises-Computer networks-Software.
Electronic books.
HD30.37 .Y564 2018
658.4