Control Room

Control Room is the area of Blue Prism in which processes that have been designed, tested and deployed can be controlled in a real world environment.

The environment within Control Room displays processes, resources and sessions.

A process is defined as a business process previously designed and tested from Process Studio. It encapsulates a specific business process by taking pre-developed actions and making decisions based on their outcomes.

A resource is a unit which performs all, or part of a process and can be either human, or more commonly, machine.

A session represents a process which is currently assigned to a resource. It maintains a state (for example, Pending, Running, Completed) and can be filtered in the view to see relevant data.

The Control Room shows all of the available resources and processes in the current environment.

Create a session

In order to start a new session, drag a process onto the required resource, or drag a resource onto the required process.

TIP: To quickly run one process on several resources, select several resources by dragging the mouse and drag the entire selection over a single process.

Pending sessions appear in the list view in the lower half of the window and are colored orange.

Start a session

To start pending sessions, select all desired sessions (using the control key to select more than one session) and click the Start Selection link, or right-click the selection and choose Start.

Stop a session

To ''immediately'' stop a running session, or a set of sessions, select all desired sessions (using the control key to select more than one session) and click the Stop Selection link, or right-click the selection and choose Immediate Stop.

To request a ''safe'' stop in a running session or set of sessions, select all desired sessions (using the control key to select more than one session), then right-click the selection and choose Request Stop. A flag is set on the session that the running process can check using the IsStopRequested() environment function, allowing it to exit cleanly from its current operations.