From the course: Blue Prism: Excel Automation

Create a queue - Blue Prism Tutorial

From the course: Blue Prism: Excel Automation

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Create a queue

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- Before we proceed to loading the queue, we'll need to create the work queue within blue prism. Keep in mind that not all processes require a queue. However, it is the best practice to have one. Having a work queue makes reporting and exception handling much easier because each queue item is associated with an audit row that can be referred to. A new queue is created through the system tab. Now we get back to blue prism homepage. Click on System, and then Workflow. On the right hand side of the window, you see where a new queue can be created. Under the Name field, now enter the queue name. Which in this case is going to be Account Report Consolidation. The key name is the unique identifier for the queue item. And the way which account will be identified by its number. For this purpose, the key name will be called Account Number. We can leave the rest of the settings as default. After these changes have been made, we can click on Apply to save the changes. Once the queue has been created, we can navigate to the main page of the blue prism process. Here, we'll need to create a data variable, which holds the queue name. Create a new data item and place it on the grid. Double-click on it in order to update the properties. The data item is going to be called Queue Name. Under Data Type, select Text and the initial value is going to be the queue name we just created. Which is going to be Account Report Consolidation. Once updated, you can click on OK. Once this is done, we need to update the properties of the Get Next Item actions on the main page. Double-click on it and under the Queue Name, we're going to drag across the queue name Data Variable we just created. Once updated, you can click on OK. We'll need to update the reference in the other Get Next Item action. Drag across the variable under the queue name Input Value. And then click on OK. So now, our queue has been created and our action items set.

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