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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 pagesEditing 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 CalculationsActions; 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 StudioAdditional 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 workUI 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

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 ...