From the course: Introducing Blue Prism
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Populate a queue: Get data from Excel - Blue Prism Tutorial
From the course: Introducing Blue Prism
Populate a queue: Get data from Excel
- (Narrator) There are multiple ways in which a queue can be populated. Either using a direct input from an application, email, Excel, or work forms. In this scenario, we'll use the list of queries Excel file with all queries to be processed by the robot. There are two parts of the queue loading that we need to build. The first one is getting the queries out of the Excel file and then adding that to the queue. For the queue loading we'll use the work used business object which is a pre-build object part of the internal business objects prism. There is a set functionality which provides basic actions across the queue. We're also going to make use of the Excel video. For the first part of the process we're going to require to get all of the items from the list of queries file. We're going to use quite a lot of the data from the Get All Orders page. We're going to copy all of the functionality which will have build associated with Excel along with the data items. And we're going to paste…
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