Flow Development using OO Workflow Designer [MF_OO230]

OVERVIEW

This four-day course introduces students to the essential concepts and usage of the Operations Orchestration (OO) software. OO is part of the Micro Focus Operations Bridge, Data Center Automation, Hybrid Cloud Management X and Service Management Automation X.

In particular, the course covers how to use OO Workflow Designer as a flow development tool. Workflow Designer is a web-based environment for authoring flows; these flows are written in CloudSlang language and can be deployed in OO Central.

The course also covers Robotics Process Automation (RPA) capabilities, in particular, how to record RPA activities to automate repetitive, error-prone UI-based human actions on applications.

The course consists of focused, task-oriented lectures, text, and a series of detailed hands-on labs to teach the course material to the students. The hands-on labs for this course use version 2022.05 of the OO software.

OBJECTIVES

Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:

§  Run and manage automated workflows using Operations Orchestration (OO)

§  Perform a wide range of system administration, monitoring, and management tasks using OO Central

§  Author, maintain, document, and package new automated workflows using the OO Workflow Designer

§  Test and debug the flows locally and remotely

§  Record and debug RPA activities for UI automation

§  Defining inputs and outputs for flows and steps

§  Author and debug hybrid flows

§  Work with Looping and branching operations

§  Use Activity Designer

§  Generator project content for REST API

§  Create custom Python operations

§  Work with CloudSlang

§  Use SCM to integrate with GitHub repositories

AUDIENCE

• This course is intended for:
• §  Workflow developers
• §  System Administrators
• §  Automation Operators
• §  DevOps integrators
• §  Other personnel responsible for the implementation of OO

CONTENT

Module 1: Course Overview

§  Identify the contents and objectives of the course

§  Define the class schedule and class logistics

§  Identify the related courses

§  Discuss the lab environment details

Module 2: Introduction to OO

§  Describe OO and its key benefits

§  Explain the system and functional architecture of OO

§  Discuss the key capabilities of OO

§  Define content packs, projects, flows and operations

Module 3: Basic Flow Authoring with Workflow Designer

§  Describe and use OO Workflow Designer

§  Identify flow authoring components

§  Create and debug a basic flow

Module 4: Running Flows in OO Central

§  Explain the role of OO Central in deploying automated workflows

§  Describe the OO Central UI

§  Deploy projects and dependencies

§  Run flows, monitor progress, and evaluate results

§  Set flow permissions

§  View the dashboard and reports

§  Visualize a deployed workflow

§  Explore system configuration

Module 5: Recording RPA Activities

§  Describe RPA

§  Use RPA Recorder

§  Create an RPA Activity

§  Debug an RPA Flow Activity

Module 6: Defining Inputs and Outputs

§  Define inputs and outputs for steps and flow

§  Describe step properties

§  Define system properties

§  Describe flow properties

§  Use Python expressions

§  Using Python functions

Module 7: Authoring Hybrid Flows

§  Describe hybrid flows

§  Create hybrid flows

§  Debug hybrid flows remotely

§  Describe AFL content packs

Module 8: More Flow Authoring Options

§  Define results and transitions

§  Define and use Subflows

§  Implement branching and looping in flows

§  Use worker groups and robot groups

§  Describe Activity Designer

§  Use CloudSlang libraries

Module 9: Content Generator for REST API

§  Use Content Generator for REST API

Module 10: Creating Custom Python Operations

§  Implement Python Operations

§  Install a Python custom library

§  Implement Python Custom library functionality

Module 11: Working with CloudSlang

§  Describe CloudSlang

§  Describe how CloudSlang is used in OO

§  Import CloudSlang code developed outside of OO

§  Contribute to CloudSlang using Git

Module 12: Using SCM

§  Describe GIT Repository

§  Use Git Repositories in Workflow Designer