Chapter 1, The Case for Robotic Process Automation, gives some background on what robotic process automation is, and what processes are best suited for automation, as well as a brief overview of the robotic process operation model.
Chapter 2, Building the First Blue Prism Process, takes the reader through the creation of a simple process.
Chapter 3, Pages, Data Items, Blocks, Collections, and Loops, continues to build on the process by adding pages, data items, blocks, collections, and loops.
Chapter 4, Actions, Decisions, Choices, and Calculations, explores the use of actions, decisions, choices, and calculations in building the process.
Chapter 5, Implementing Business Objects, shows how to teach the robot to interact with applications such as Internet Explorer.
Chapter 6, Spying Elements, looks at spying elements, which are used to identify what the robot needs to interact with on the screen.
Chapter 7, Write, Wait, and Read, builds the logic behind the business object by using read, write, and wait stages.
Chapter 8, Working with Excel, covers reading and writing to Excel and CSV files.
Chapter 9, Sending and Receiving Emails, explains how to read and send emails using Outlook.
Chapter 10, Control Room and Work Queues, introduces the control room, adding items to a queue, processing the items, and updating the work status.
Chapter 11, Exception Handling, demonstrates how to handle errors that are both expected and unexpected in a graceful manner.
