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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

SDK packages and Custom script development

An SDK is a collection of functionalities or tools provided by various software vendors such as SAP. SDKs can be required or optional. For example, the Java Development Kit (JDK) is required for Java development, and the iOS SDK is needed for iOS application development. Similarly, SAP has provided several SDKs for SAP Intelligent RPA. While one SDK, irpa_core, is necessary for development, other SDKs are optional and can be added as needed.

While SDKs provide a large set of functionalities to enable the development of SAP Intelligent RPA applications, sometimes you will encounter a requirement where the SDKs either won't offer an in-built functionality or won't meet your needs completely. In those circumstances, you have the option of writing your code using a control custom script.

Let's understand SDKs and custom script development in this section.

SDK packages

In SAP Intelligent RPA parlance, an Software Development...