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Published inNov 2018
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ISBN-139781789610444
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Lim Mei Ying
Lim Mei Ying
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Lim Mei Ying

Lim Mei Ying has extensive experience in designing, implementing and supporting Blue Prism processes as well as setting up a Robotic Operating Model for the enterprise. She has spent many hours figuring out the dos and don'ts of Blue Prism technologies and thrives on the challenge of finding new ways to solve automation problems. Mei Ying lives on the sunny island of Singapore.
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Opening an Excel file

We have fired up Excel, but we have yet to open the ShoppingList_Henry.xlsx file. Let's get to it now by observing the following steps:

  1. With the Get List of items to purchase page opened, drag an Action stage and drop it beneath the Show stage. Configure it as follows:
    • Name: Open List
    • Business Object: MS Excel VBO
    • Action: Open Workbook
  2. In the Inputs tab of the Open List stage, the action is expecting two inputs: handle and File name.
    • In the handle field: Drag the handle data item that was created when we created an instance of Excel in the handle field.
    • In the File Name field: Drag the Shopping List Excel File Path data item that we created earlier to contain the file path to the Excel file (which contains the actual path, C:\Shopping\ShoppingList_Henry.xlsx).
  3. Click Outputs. In Workbook Name, click on the Data item icon to automatically create...
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Lim Mei Ying

Lim Mei Ying has extensive experience in designing, implementing and supporting Blue Prism processes as well as setting up a Robotic Operating Model for the enterprise. She has spent many hours figuring out the dos and don'ts of Blue Prism technologies and thrives on the challenge of finding new ways to solve automation problems. Mei Ying lives on the sunny island of Singapore.
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