Microsoft Exchange Web Services Interface for Tungsten RPA
Download Microsoft Exchange Web Services Interface for Tungsten RPA Overview
Features
The purposes of this asset is to provide a configuration baseline to reduce the effort involved in deploying Exchange based email integration into solution demonstrations and robot deployments. This also serves as an enablement example to illustrate some of the following capabilities
- Calling and handling web service responses within a Tungsten RPA robot
- Use of snippets within a robotic workflow
- How various EWS activities can be performed and included within an wider robotic use case (e.g. monitor folders, ingest mail, mark as read, send mail with/without attachments)
- Utilisation of the password store
- Use of global variables within a process
- Decisions to support process logic and aid debugging (e.g. switch to disable live email integration)
- Exception handling
- Writing to the message log to provide audit trails and process based information
Benefits
Reduces the time and effort involved in deploying direct Exchange based email integration into your robots as well as providing insight into a range of other RPA actions and techniques.
Resources
For further information on Microsoft Exchange Web Services including the available web service calls and parameters please refer to:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/client-developer/web-service-reference/ews-reference-for-exchange
Technical Details
Inputs
Various inputs are required by the assets, primarily
- Exchange Account Credentials: Username/Password
- Inbound Email Address to Monitor
- Mail Folder to Monitor
- Outbound Email Address for Sending Acknowledgements
A number of other configuration and extension options exist, more details can be found in the documentation provided with the asset.
Outputs
This asset serves as a baseline configuration for your own custom project builds.
By default, an email confirmation is sent after processing an email however the intention is that users of this asset will configure the provided snippets and robots to the suit the needs of their use case.
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Additional Information
PLEASE NOTE: Tungsten Labs is independent of Tungsten Automation and this listing is not officially supported or maintained.
