Intro

The London-based fruit shop, Fresh Fruit Ltd. needs RPA’s help for their fruit sales.

What you will learn

• Primarily:
  • The most common variable types: Text, Number and List
  • Flow variables
• Secondarily:
  • Basic Power Automate activities
  • Input/output variables

Client Name

Fresh Fruit Ltd.

Process Name

FruitAndVariables

Description

Fresh Fruit Ltd. wants to automate the process for creating a fruit sale, and you’re in charge of creating an attended robot that can take user input, process the user data, and output it:

• Text
• Use a Display message with the text ‘On sale this week: Apple’
• Use the Set variable to create a text variable called %Fruit% with the value ‘Banana’
  • Replace the ‘Apple’ in the Place Message with your newly created variable, %Fruit%
• Run the flow and inspect the Flow variables to the right
• Use a Display input dialog to take user input. The title should be ‘Type in the fruit on sale; the Input dialog message should be ‘Type in the fruit on sale’
  • Inspect the output variables produced
  • Delete the Set variable
  • Fix the output variable in the Display input dialog
• Advanced:
  • Inspect the ButtonPressed2 produced variable in the Input Dialog. Rename it to a more describing name. Use it in an If action to only make the flow run when the user clicks ‘Ok’ and not ‘Cancel’
• Number
• Use a Set variable (after Display input dialog)
  • Rename it to Price
  • Value: 2.6
• Correct the Display message to, Name: Only TODAY: %Fruit% is sold at %Price%
• Run and inspect the Flow variables (Text and Number)
• Replace the Set variable with another Display input dialog
  • Fix the title, message, and produced output variable
• Advanced:
  • What if the user clicks ‘Cancel’ in the last Display input dialog?
  • Fix: Change the If condition and put inside % % and set it to equals to %True%
• Use the Truncate number to
  • Get the integer part, problem?
  • Round the number, 0 decimals
• List
• Use a Create new list and give it the name ‘Vegetables’
• Use the Add item two times to add to items to the list (Potato and Onion)
• Use a For each with a Display message in to display the items of the list
  • CurrentItem should be renamed to say something about the individual variable (try Vegetable) 
• Advanced:
  • Add more items to the list with a Set variable and the value %[‘Beets’, ‘Carrots’, ‘Spinach’]%

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