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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)

Looping through the data table and updating the CRM

Now, we will loop through the data table of extracted company details and update the CRM:

  1. Let's add the For Each Row UiPath activity, which you can find under DataTable. Let's loop through the dtCompanyData data table.
  2. Within this loop, we will use the Assign activity to assign values to all the variables we created previously. We will extract each row from the data table and convert them into strings using the row(columnname or ColumnIndex).ToString syntax; for example, strCompanyName = row("CompanyName").ToString. Your looping part of the Sequence will look as follows:

Note that we have to assign data to all five variables we defined previously.
  1. With the data assigned to our variables, we can update the Apptivo CRM application. We will search for our customer in Apptivo and then go to that specific customer record and update the same. 
  2. To automate the search, we will...