Control Room and Work Queues

One of the biggest drivers of deploying a robotic process into the workforce is to eliminate or at least minimize the need for human intervention. So far, each time we ran the process, we had to click on the Play button—that is an action that still requires a human. For the processes to be fully automated, robots should run them on their own, using a scheduler. In Blue Prism, all that action takes place in the control room. In this chapter, we will do the following:

  • Explore the control room
  • See how we can use the control room to get the robot to run on its own

The control room is also used for managing work queues. You could have a list of items in the work queue and a team of robots working on them at the ...

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