Has anyone tried using the RE Framework wherein the source data are emails from a mailbox?
And then using Orchestrator Queues so that multiple bots can execute the package?
Thanks.
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Never tried it with emails but it should work:
Dispatcher:
- Read your emails into a collection with Get Mail Message
- Iterate through it with a for each mail message
- For each mail message Add queue item.
Performer:
Retrieve your mail messages one by one as you do with any type of variable.
Thanks Bogdan. This is very helpful. I will try it out.
Richard, did you manage to get it working? I’m working on a similar case were emails are used as an input in the process and I want to use the reframework as well. Please let me know!
Question : usually queues are used in business processes which have huge number of transactions i.,e., 100’s of them per day. Is it effective to use them if we have just 5-10 transactions per day?
There are a few ways to do this, and @bogdan.nastase suggested a good one: using a Dispatcher and a Performer.
The problem is that currently the contents of queue items need to be serializable into a JSON string, and MailMessage is not (you can test by calling MyEmailMessage.GetType().IsSerializable).
Two alternatives are:
- Implement a way to serialize it yourself. This might be a good thing to be wrapped into a custom activity and submitted to the Hackaton. Anyone up for the challenge?
- Get the information you want from the email (e.g., date, sender, subject) and save them in queue items. Sample workflows for this approach: REFrameworkWithEmails-Dispatcher.zip (497.6 KB) REFrameworkWithEmails-Performer.zip (495.6 KB)
About @yashaswiniGowda’s question: They can be useful not only to deal with volume, but also for easier maintenance and more flexibility; so I would say yes!
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Thanks a lot Mateus! I tried your second suggestion with the dispatcher and perfomer and adjusted it a little so now it performs perfectly for my situation.
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@Mateus_Cruz, Thank you for sharing workflows.
In my case - I need to put email.attachments in a queue. As I see, its no serializable.
Do u have maybe the solution for such case?
In that case, I’d recommend saving the attachments somewhere locally (or maybe a shared drive) and just store the path to them in the queue, instead of the file itself.
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