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Learning Robotic Process Automation

By : Alok Mani Tripathi
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Learning Robotic Process Automation

By: Alok Mani Tripathi

Overview of this book

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) enables automating business processes using software robots. Software robots interpret, trigger responses, and communicate with other systems just like humans do. Robotic processes and intelligent automation tools can help businesses improve the effectiveness of services faster and at a lower cost than current methods. This book is the perfect start to your automation journey, with a special focus on one of the most popular RPA tools: UiPath. Learning Robotic Process Automation takes you on a journey from understanding the basics of RPA to advanced implementation techniques. You will become familiar with the UiPath interface and learn about its workflow. Once you are familiar with the environment, we will get hands-on with automating applications such as Excel, SAP, Windows and web applications, screen and web scraping, working with user events, and we'll cover exceptions and debugging. By the end of the book, you'll not only be able to build your first software robot, but you'll also wire it up to perform various automation tasks with the help of best practices for robot deployment.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Act on controls – mouse and keyboard activities

While working in UiPath Studio, we have to work with various types of controls, such as Find control, mouse control, keyboard control, and so on, to automate tasks. In this section, we are going to implement the mouse and keyboard activities.

Mouse activities

Those activities that involve interaction with the mouse fall under the category of mouse activities.

There are three mouse activities in UiPath Studio:

  • Click activity
  • Double-click activity
  • Hover activity

The Click activity

When we have to click on a UI element...