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
FruitAndVariablesDescription
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']%
