Blue Prism processes

• Pega Platform supports only Blue Prism processes. To handle the request and response between Blue Prism and your application, Pega Platform recommends that you define two processes. The current implementation follows the Blue Prism main and liaison processes pattern. For more information, see the Recommended Approach section of your Blue Prism developer documentation.

  The pattern consists of the following:

  • Queuing process: The queuing process queues the request from Pega Platform to a Blue Prism work queue and returns the queue item ID of the request to Pega Platform. At a predefined interval, a Blue Prism job scheduler pulls the item from the Blue Prism work queue and processes it.
  • Queued process: After the queuing process is complete, the queued process executes the automation and calls Pega Platform back with the results of the request, the status, and the queue item ID. The queued process returns the results by using the REST service that Pega Platform exposes. Pega Platform uses the queue item ID to map the response data to a case. For more information, see the Service configuration section of this document.

  These processes ensure that Blue Prism handles your requests asynchronously and updates Pega Platform later with your results.

  Note:

  Make sure that you expose the queuing process so that Pega Platform can call it. Pega Platform supports document/literal encoding. For more information, see your Blue Prism developer documentation.

Service configuration

• Pega Platform exposes a REST service that Blue Prism uses to call Pega Platform back with the results of the request. To call the Pega Platform service, enter the following URL in your queued process:

  http://host/prweb/api/OpenRoboticsBluePrism/v1/callback

• The payload that the queued process returns to Pega Platform should include the item ID and status in the following format:

  {itemId: “<the item id of the process>”, “status”: “<Completed> or <Did not complete>”, <rest of the outputs that are defined in the Blue Prism process>}

  To map the processes in your application, Pega Platform expects all of the outputs as well as the fields specified in the payload.

  Note: You must convert the data that the queued process returns to Pega Platform into JSON format.

For more information, see your Blue Prism developer documentation.

Data types

• The current Pega Open Robotics integration for Blue Prism only supports simple data types.