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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)

Launching an assistant bot on a keyboard event

Let us say we want our assistant bot to start automating only when we trigger an event. For example, the user wants his Robot to open and start typing in the Notepad window when he presses Alt + W. This can be achieved using the Hotkey trigger. Also, inside the Event handler, just create or record the sequence of steps to be followed. The detailed procedure has been explained in the following sections:

  1. Drag and drop the Monitor events activity: In this step, we will just drag and drop the Monitor events activity into the workflow. When we double-click on it, it will look like this:
  1. Drag the Hotkey trigger activity: In the next step, we will use the Hotkey trigger activity for the user to start the automation process. Assign Alt + W to the hotkey so that, when the user presses this hotkey, the event will be executed:
  1. Open Notepad...