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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)

Testing the automation

Let's now test the automation with all the workflows end to end:

  1. Go to the main workflow and click on Run, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. Once you get the first message box, click OK and then use ALT + S to trigger the automation. Click OK on the next few message box prompts. Remember that we added these message boxes to bring visibility to the workflow execution:

  1. Go to the Processed folder and check whether the Request.xlsx file has been moved there:

If you encounter issues, you can use the Debug option to run through the steps and ascertain where the issues are. 

  1. Before you go, do not forget to stop the automation by clicking on the STOP button on UiPath Studio.

That's it! We have completed our first project in UiPath that automated the process of creating a support ticket.

We can implement a few enhancements and make things a little more interesting by trying out the following suggested enhancements.