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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)

Logging and taking screenshots

UiPath has a multi-process architecture that offers to execute each workflow separately in the executor. Executors are managed by UI robots. So, if any executor stops working, then the entire process will not be affected.

Client logging

Client logs basically enable a server to record connections. These logs can be used by content providers in various scenarios, such as to generate billing, to trace media server usage, or to deliver suitable quality content depending on the speed of the client's server.

For client logging in UiPath, we have an NLog configuration file which makes it easy and flexible to integrate with databases, servers, or any other NLog targets. Logging can be configured...