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Robotic Process Automation Projects

By : Nandan Mullakara, Arun Kumar Asokan
Book Image

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)

Reading files in the input folder

Perform the following steps:

  1. First, let's add a new sequence to the project. Click on New and choose Sequence from the UiPath ribbon. Name the sequence as BuildExcelList and click Create.
  2. Before we configure the workflow, let's add the input arguments for the sequence InputFolder and OutputFolder, both of which are of the String type. Your workflow should look like this:

  1. Now, let's add a Try-Catch block for exception handling.
  2. Within the Try block, add the Excel Application Scope activity and set the workbook path to OutputFolder+"\ImageDetails.xlsx". Within this scope, we will get the list of image paths from the input folder and write the image paths to the first column of the output file.
The Excel application scope opens the Excel workbook for you. You can create your Excel activities within this block. When you've finished executing this activity, the workbook and the Excel application will be...