Extract attachments from different files such as Outlook, Excel etc.

[AndreKöpplin]

Dear All

I got a question from one of our Business Users, if Blue Prism would be able to extract attachments from different sort of files such as Outlook mail, PowerPoint, Word document, Excel document etc.

Did someone already such as activity and how difficult is it to implement such as solution?

Best regards
Andre

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Andre Köpplin
RPA Project Manager
Europe/Wroclaw
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[ewilson]

Hi @AndreKöpplin,

​There are standard VBOs available in Blue Prism for working with Excel, Word, and Outlook. We don't have a VBO for working with PowerPoint, but a partner has posted a VBO to the Digital Exchange for PowerPoint. With that said, I believe the only one that includes a standard action for dealing with attachments is the Outlook VBO. The other VBOs could be extended to pull embedded documents out of spreadsheets, Word docs, etc, but they would need to be implemented in Code stages.

Cheers,

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Eric Wilson
Director, Integrations and Enablement
Blue Prism Digital Exchange
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