🎓Teach Michael: Business Objects (VBOs) you can't work without

[Michael_S]

Howdy everyone!

I've now fully developed 2 automations using Blue Prism, and I have to say I'm hooked. One was a very simple tool where I built a Business Object (BO) to read a website and extract the latest submissions to an Excel sheet. The other took Purchase Orders and input them into an online finance management tool.

Both of these projects made use of VBOs available on our Digital Exchange, which has over 1700 VBOs ready for you to use. That's a lot of functionality to browse through though - so I'd like to ask...

What are the VBOs from the Digital Exchange that you couldn't work without?

I'd love to hear about the VBOs you use everyday, the objects that have come to your rescue when nothing else was working, and even BOs you've built yourself to solve a particularly niche use case. I'd love to give them a try!

As always, the advice you share here will be added to our "Community Tips for Beginners" thread to help newcomers get started in the world of automation!

Thanks in advance community, I couldn't have gotten this far without you 💙

Michael

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💙 Michael
(I'm part of the SS&C Blue Prism Community Team)
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[Neel1]

below are some of VBO without which it became impossible to work. lets hear from others as well.

MS EXCEL VBO

MS OUTLOOK VBO

COLLECTION MANIPULATION

OLEDB, Screenshot VBO

all sort of UTILITY VBO.

lately we are started using VBOs for graph API.

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Neeraj Kumar
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[LeonardoSQueiroz]

• Collection Manipulation
• Excel VBO

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Leonardo Soares
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[harish.m]

• Collection Manipulation
• Excel VBO
• JSON
• Utility - file management
• Utility- Environment

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[Michael_S]

"Lately we started using VBOs for Graph API"

@Neeraj Kumar what's the use case here? Is that so you can interface with Office file formats without the software installed on the digital worker?

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💙 Michael
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[Michael_S]

I absolutely could not survive without Collection Manipulation!

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💙 Michael
(I'm part of the SS&C Blue Prism Community Team)
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[Tejaskumar_Darji]

Excel, Outlook, Collection, File, Work queue VBO

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Thanks & Regards,
Tejaskumar Darji - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tejaskumardarji/
Technical Lead
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[VivekJadhav]

must VBO's

• MS Excel 
• Utility - Collection Manipulation 
• Utility - File Management
• Utility - Strings
• Utility - JSON
• MS Outlook

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[Michael_S]

So our "must have" list so far is:
Note: The VBOs listed below may have been updated since this post was written. I've also included a link to a search results page for each VBO so that you can find the latest version!

1. MS Excel VBO | Link | Search
   Provides the capability for Blue Prism to interact with Excel
   
   
2. Utility - Collection Manipulation | Link | Search
   Provides lots of functions for manipulating collections!
   
   
3. MS Outlook VBO | Link | Search
   Provides the capability for Blue Prism to interact with Outlook
   
   
4. Utility - JSON | Link | Search
   Turn a collection into JSON, or parse JSON into a collection!
   
   
5. Utility - File Management | Link | Search
   Interact with file systems to manipulate files within your automation (also available in Japanese)
   
   
6. Utility - Environment | Link | Search
   Provides functionality to interact with the Blue Prism Environment. Read screen resolutions, determine the Operating System and much more
   
   
7. Function for Data - OLEDB | Link | Search
   Provides methods for interacting with OLEDB data sources.
   
   
8. Utility - Strings | Link | Search
   Provides a variety of functions for manipulating text, including the ability to determine how similar two strings are
   
   
9. Screen Capture Tool | Link | Search
   Discover what was on screen when your automation stopped by taking a screenshot and saving it to a secure location - great for debugging.
   
   
10. Microsoft Graph API | Search
    A collection of many VBOs that allow you to interact with Microsoft's Graph API, providing an easy way to interact with Microsoft's suite of Office 365 products

I'll add more as they come in, thank you everyone for your help so far! 

By the way, if you just want a good view of what's popular on the Digital Exchange, try this link.

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💙 Michael
(I'm part of the SS&C Blue Prism Community Team)
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[Neel1]

Michael Shillingford - Yes .Graph API is alternative to Outlook VBO and it do not require software to be installed in the DW.

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Neeraj Kumar
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