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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)

Getting started with the UiPath project

As with all UiPath projects, we will start by creating the project:

  1. Create a new UiPath project in Studio, called rpachallenge, and open the Main workflow.
  2. Within the Main sequence, let's add a Try Catch activity to handle any exceptions. We will add the automation to the Try block in the next section.
  3. For now, let's handle any exceptions in the Catches block. Go ahead and add a new catch for Exception. This will handle any system exceptions. Add a Message box activity with the "RPA Challenge Failed due to this Error:"+ exception.Message text.

Your workflow so far should look like this:

Now that we have handled the exception, let's get into the meat of the automation.