recursions in Blue Prism

[matuopm]

I'm just working on a page and it seems like I will be having a lot of crossing lines when I'm done with the page.

So I wondered if a "recursion" like this would work:

View attachment recursion.png

 

[matuopm]

I wonder where blue prism will "jump" once the "End" is reached.

 

[gil.silva]

Hello matuopm,

Nothing like to do a test, but recursive call the same page, it might cause infinite loop

 

[matuopm]

Well my initial thought was, that when I enter the choice stage that on some point it will end up at the end stage.

The choice works basically like this:

I enter the choice with a certain X (number). and during the process i manipulate X so that an on some point the x meets the criteria to reach the end.

example:

x=3

choice x
choice x=1 => link to end
choice x=2 => calc X-1 and do some other stuff and Enter Page blabla
choice x=3 => calc X-1 and do some other stuff and Enter Page blabla

 

[gil.silva]

I understand, but I can't see a good case where it would be better to call again the page than loop to the beginning of the flow, which will have the same effect.

 

[matuopm]

Well the Page has like 18 choices and some of them lead to the top some don't. It's a mess
and in some choices there are smaller "underchoices" with like 3-4 cases.