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Learning Robotic Process Automation

By : Alok Mani Tripathi
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Learning Robotic Process Automation

By: Alok Mani Tripathi

Overview of this book

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) enables automating business processes using software robots. Software robots interpret, trigger responses, and communicate with other systems just like humans do. Robotic processes and intelligent automation tools can help businesses improve the effectiveness of services faster and at a lower cost than current methods. This book is the perfect start to your automation journey, with a special focus on one of the most popular RPA tools: UiPath. Learning Robotic Process Automation takes you on a journey from understanding the basics of RPA to advanced implementation techniques. You will become familiar with the UiPath interface and learn about its workflow. Once you are familiar with the environment, we will get hands-on with automating applications such as Excel, SAP, Windows and web applications, screen and web scraping, working with user events, and we'll cover exceptions and debugging. By the end of the book, you'll not only be able to build your first software robot, but you'll also wire it up to perform various automation tasks with the help of best practices for robot deployment.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Data Manipulation

So far we have learned about the basics of RPA and how to organize steps in a workflow using a Flowchart or Sequence. We now know about UiPath components and have a thorough understanding of UiPath Studio. We used a few simple examples to make our first robot. Before we proceed further, we should learn about variable and data manipulation in UiPath. It is not very different from other programming concepts. However, here we will look at the specifics of UiPath data handling and manipulation.

This chapter will mainly deal with data manipulation. Data manipulation is the process of changing data—whether it is adding, removing, or updating it. Before learning about data manipulation, we shall see what variables, collections, and arguments are, what kind of data they store, and what their scope is. We will then carry out various examples of data manipulation...