Introducing the control room

We have been running processes by clicking on the Run button. It does a really neat job of showing us how the process moves through each stage. However, there is a problem with that approach; it still requires someone to click on it. In production mode, the process will be run by the robots unattended. To do so, we will use the control room. From Blue Prism Studio, click on the Control tab. The control room loads as shown in the following screenshot. By default, the main screen loaded is Session Management:

  1. The left-hand panel lists all the sub-menus available in the control room. We will go through the main options in just a bit.
  2. As this is the Session Management screen, we see on the right a list of the processes ...

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