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Robotic Process Automation with Blue Prism Quick Start Guide

You're reading from  Robotic Process Automation with Blue Prism Quick Start Guide

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789610444
Pages 232 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Lim Mei Ying Lim Mei Ying
Profile icon Lim Mei Ying

Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface 1. The Case for Robotic Process Automation 2. Building the First Blue Prism Process 3. Pages, Data Items, Blocks, Collections, and Loops 4. Actions, Decisions, Choices, and Calculations 5. Implementing Business Objects 6. Spying Elements 7. Write, Wait, and Read 8. Working with Excel 9. Sending and Receiving Emails 10. Control Room and Work Queues 11. Exception Handling 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using MS Excel VBO to open, show, and close Microsoft Excel

Let's dive into the action by starting up Excel with the MS Excel VBO library. Here, we are going to fire up the Microsoft Excel application and make it visible by showing it on the screen. Finally, to keep the desktop clean, we shall close the application gracefully.

Before we begin

Before we start building the process, we will observe the following steps to remove the stubs that we placed on the page earlier:

  1. Open the Weekly purchase of groceries process for editing.
  2. Click on the Get list of items to purchase page.
  3. Delete the note stage that we added as placeholders for the actual steps so that there is nothing between the Start and End stages.
  4. In the Output...
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