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The ABBYY Vantage Connector for Blue Prism is a visual business object (VBO) that provides a set of actions to send documents to ABBYY Vantage, process them with an available skill, and get the results. It ships with a preconfigured sample process named ABBYY Vantage Skills example, which is imported together with the .bprelease file. Install the connector on every machine that runs a Blue Prism process that uses it. Use the installation wizard for a single machine, or silent mode to automate installation across many machines.
Installing, updating, and uninstalling the connector requires administrator privileges. The installer requires that all Blue Prism Automate.exe processes be stopped during installation. If any Automate.exe process is running, the installer displays a warning, and continuing forcibly terminates those processes.

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Install via the installation wizard

1

Upload the setup file

Upload the ABBYYVantageConnectorForBluePrism<version>.exe setup file to the machine where Blue Prism is installed.
2

Run the installer

Run ABBYYVantageConnectorForBluePrism<version>.exe and follow the instructions of the Installation Wizard.
3

Import the release into Blue Prism

In Blue Prism, open the Studio tab and click File > Import > Release / Skill. Select the ABBYY Vantage Skills <version>.bprelease file in the folder where the connector was installed, and then follow the setup instructions.The default location is C:\Program Files (x86)\ABBYY Vantage Connector for Blue Prism on 64-bit systems, or C:\Program Files\ABBYY Vantage Connector for Blue Prism on 32-bit systems.If you install the connector on many machines, you only need to import the release once, on any machine where the Blue Prism client is installed.
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Confirm the import

After the import completes, an ABBYY Vantage Processes section (containing the sample process) appears in the list of processes, and an ABBYY Vantage section (containing the ABBYY Vantage Skills VBO) appears in the list of objects.
Blue Prism Studio tab with the ABBYY Vantage Processes section (ABBYY Vantage Skills example) and the ABBYY Vantage object (ABBYY Vantage Skills VBO) highlighted

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Install in silent mode

Use silent mode to install the connector automatically on many machines.
1

Open a command line as administrator

On the machine where Blue Prism is installed, run the command line as an administrator.
2

Go to the setup file location

Navigate to the directory where the connector setup file is located.
3

Run the install command

Run the following command:
This command unpacks the distribution files to the default folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\ABBYY Vantage Connector for Blue Prism on 64-bit systems, or C:\Program Files\ABBYY Vantage Connector for Blue Prism on 32-bit systems) and copies the Abbyy.Rpa.Vantage.BluePrism.dll library into the Blue Prism installation folder. This library is required for the ABBYY Vantage Skills VBO.
To uninstall the connector, run the following command:

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Update the connector

If you have an older version of the connector, update it to the latest version.
1

Run the update

Depending on how the connector was installed, do one of the following:
  • If the connector was installed with the installation wizard, run ABBYYVantageConnectorForBluePrism<version>.exe of the latest version, and then click Update.
  • If the connector was installed in silent mode, run ABBYYVantageConnectorForBluePrism.<version>.exe -install /q.
2

Import the latest release and resolve conflicts

In Blue Prism, open the Studio tab and click File > Import > Release / Skill. Select the ABBYY Vantage Skills <version>.bprelease file where the latest version is stored, and then follow the setup instructions.During setup, in the Resolve Import Conflicts section, select these resolutions:
  • For the ABBYY Vantage Skills example component, select Overwrite the existing process with the incoming process.
  • For the ABBYY Vantage Skills component, select Overwrite the existing business object with the incoming business object.

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Replace the GetTransactionResult action with SaveTransactionResult

If you use Blue Prism version 7.2, update the connector to the latest version. Then, in each Blue Prism process that contains the GetTransactionResult action, replace it with the SaveTransactionResult action.
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Open the process

Open a process in Blue Prism Process Studio.
2

Switch the action to SaveTransactionResult

Double-click the GetTransactionResult action to open its properties. In the Action Properties window:
  1. In the Action field, select the SaveTransactionResult action.
  2. On the Inputs tab, for the outputDirectoryPath parameter, specify the path to the folder that holds the transaction results.
Action Properties window with the Action set to SaveTransactionResult and the outputDirectoryPath input parameter
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Rebuild the results collection

Change the structure of the file processing results:
  1. In the Output Data Items area, open the collection of documents obtained from the transaction.
  2. Open Collection Properties, and then click Clear to reset the parameters.
  3. Import the collection fields for the documentProcessingResults parameter of the SaveTransactionResult action: click Import, select Business Object: ABBYY Vantage Skills, select Action: SaveTransactionResult, and select Parameter: documentProcessingResults (output).
Fields Import window importing the documentProcessingResults (output) parameter of the SaveTransactionResult action
4

Remove the file-saving actions

Open the process and remove the actions that saved files from the workflow.

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Next steps

Set up and run the bundled Blue Prism sample process.