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# GetSkills action

> The GetSkills action returns the ABBYY Vantage skills available to the connected user in the ABBYY Vantage Connector for Blue Prism.

The **GetSkills** action returns the list of skills available in ABBYY Vantage to the user whose credentials were specified in the **Configure** action.

The skills are returned as a collection. Use it to get the name of the skill you want to process a document with, and pass that name to the **skill** input parameter of the **StartTransaction** action. You can also pass the skill identifier to the **skill** parameter instead of the name.

For more information about role-based access to skills, see [Role-based access control](/vantage/documentation/tenant-admin/tenant-management/role-based-access).

## Action parameters

| Parameter  | Direction | Data type    | Description                           |
| ---------- | --------- | ------------ | ------------------------------------- |
| **skills** | Out       | `Collection` | A collection of all available skills. |

The **skills** collection contains the following fields:

| Field    | Data type | Description |
| -------- | --------- | ----------- |
| **Id**   | `Text`    | Skill ID.   |
| **Name** | `Text`    | Skill name. |
| **Type** | `Text`    | Skill type. |

## Related topics

* [Configure action](/vantage/connectors/blue-prism/actions/configure)
* [StartTransaction action](/vantage/connectors/blue-prism/actions/start-transaction)