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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)

Invoking the Twilio REST post method

Now, we will use the credentials and variables with the values from the Parent bot and invoke some Twilio REST web services:

  1. Within the Try block, add the REST Web Services Post method action. Let's add the URI variable we added as the URI property. Next, set Authentication Mode to Basic. For the Username, pick TwilioCredentials, TwilioID from the credential locker that we created previously. For the Password, pick TwilioCredentials, TwilioPassword, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. Staying on the REST action properties, let's scroll down and set the content type to application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Now, add the following Custom parameters:
Name Value
Body Hello $RecieverName$ $MessageContent$
From $SenderPhoneNumber$
To $RecieverPhoneNumber$

 

  1. Finally, let's assign the output to a variable. Click on the wizard near the input box and create a new dictionary variable called...