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SAP Intelligent RPA for Developers

By : Vishwas Madhuvarshi, Vijaya Kumar Ganugula
Book Image

SAP Intelligent RPA for Developers

By: Vishwas Madhuvarshi, Vijaya Kumar Ganugula

Overview of this book

SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation (RPA) enables businesses to automate repetitive work and integrate automation capabilities across SAP and non-SAP systems. This book provides end-to-end coverage of business process automation using SAP Intelligent RPA and shows how to build multiple SAP Intelligent RPA projects from start to finish. Some of these projects may build upon the work done in previous chapters to showcase the Agile development process in SAP Intelligent RPA. As you progress, you'll cover the SAP Intelligent RPA factory, Desktop Studio, Cloud Studio, and the Bot store. You'll also learn about the building blocks of the SAP Intelligent RPA solution and creating bots from initial application declaration to workflow design and deployment, along with making bots run in attended and unattended modes. You'll also learn about SAP Process Automation, the new SAP service that is going to replace the SAP Intelligent RPA service soon. Finally, we will discuss the migration path for your SAP Intelligent RPA projects to SAP Process Automation and showcase that the RPA development remains similar in both services. By the end of this RPA book, you’ll be able to create and manage complex bots that are capable of interacting with SAP and non-SAP systems.
Table of Contents (39 chapters)
Free Chapter
2
Part 1: Introduction to SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation
9
Part 2: Installing and Setting Up SAP Intelligent RPA
12
Part 3: Developing Bots with Desktop Studio
21
Part 4: Generating and Updating the JavaScript Code
26
Part 5: Building and Running Projects
30
Part 6: Orchestrating Workflows with Cloud Studio
34
Part 7: SAP Intelligent RPA Store, Roadmap, and SAP BTP Automation Services

Capturing applications and pages

Our business process requires the SAP Logon application to be started and for us to execute a sequence of steps that includes navigating multiple pages. We will start with capturing the application. For this, we need to first start the SAP Logon application on the system/workstation where the automation solution is being developed.

Capturing SAP Logon application

Execute the following steps to capture the SAP GUI application:

  1. Start the saplogin.exe application. Please refer to the The SAP GUI connector section in Chapter 11, An Introduction to Technology Connectors, to ensure that the scripting is enabled at both the SAP client and server.
  2. Go to the Explorer perspective in Desktop Studio.
  3. Click the + Add Application button.
  4. Select UIAutomation as the technology in the Capture Application dialog.
  5. Select the SAP Logon application from the application list. If the SAP GUI application is not displayed in the list, click on...