Distinguishing Public Holidays
Hi. Can we somehow achieve Robot's distinguishing public holidays?
I suppose, for example, we can do it as follows. But is there any simpler ways?
Approach #1: Creating an Excel book that contains all public holidays, and the Robot will refer to it
Approach #2: Creating a custom method with C# API
Integrity Systems, Inc.
US
As with most issues there are many ways to accomplish this. The Pega Robotics Advanced tab in the toolbox includes a DateTimeUtils component. This component give an automation developer access to all of the functionality of the DateTime object in .net. You could use the DateTimeUtils component to calculate holidays with know formulas (e.g. Memorial day is the last Monday of May). The Script component can also be used for this, as you can write C# code to perform the calculations using the DateTime object in .net.
Other ways to accomplish this.
1. As you suggest, they could be defined in an Excel spreedsheet
2. You could define them in an XML document that is accessible by the solution
3. Here in the United States you could use a web site lke https://www.frbservices.org/holidayschedules/ to get the Bank holidays.
I hope this helps. Let us know if you have follow on questions.