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Robotic Process Automation Projects

By : Nandan Mullakara, Arun Kumar Asokan
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Robotic Process Automation Projects

By: Nandan Mullakara, Arun Kumar Asokan

Overview of this book

Robotic Process automation helps businesses to automate monotonous tasks that can be performed by machines. This project-based guide will help you progress through easy to more advanced RPA projects. You’ll learn the principles of RPA and how to architect solutions to meet the demands of business automation, along with exploring the most popular RPA tools - UiPath and Automation Anywhere. In the first part, you’ll learn how to use UiPath by building a simple helpdesk ticket system. You’ll then automate CRM systems by integrating Excel data with UiPath. After this, the book will guide you through building an AI-based social media moderator using Google Cloud Vision API. In the second part, you’ll learn about Automation Anywhere's latest Cloud RPA platform (A2019) by creating projects such as an automated ERP administration system, an AI bot for order and invoice processing, and an automated emergency notification system for employees. Later, you’ll get hands-on with advanced RPA tasks such as invoking APIs, before covering complex concepts such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning in automation to take your understanding of RPA to the next level. By the end of the book, you’ll have a solid foundation in RPA with experience in building real-world projects.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Uploading invoices to IQ Bot 

Now, we are ready to process the rest of the invoices we placed in the Test folder. We will create a Task Bot that will loop through the Test folder and upload all the documents to IQ Bot. Follow these steps:

  1. Let's go back to the Automation Anywhere A2019 Control Room home page. Note that this is different from the IQ Bot home page. Go to My Bots and then Create a bot, just like we did for our past A2019 projects. Name the bot Invoice Upload (or any name that you'd like to use to identify the bot):

  1. On the new bot canvas, add a Loop action. Since we need to loop through each file in the Test folder, we'll set Iterator to For each file in folder. Provide the Folder path as the complete path to the Test folder. Finally, choose the wizard and add a Dictionary variable called File for the Assign file name and extension to this variable input box:

  1. Next, add an IQ Bot step so that you can upload...