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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)

Summary

As we approach towards the end of the book, let us quickly go through what we learnt. We started off by learning about RPA, its scope, and some tools available for RPA. Then we delved into more details about UiPath, its components, and setting up UiPath Studio to train your own bot. You also got to know about the user interface for UiPath Studio before beginning to design your first Robot. Once comfortable enough, we explored a fascinating aspect of UiPath, that is, recording. In Chapter 3, Sequence, Flowchart, and Control Flow, we saw how a workflow was structured and the different types of project available in UiPath—when they are used and how to use them. Chapter 3, Sequence, Flowchart, and Control Flow, also introduced you to activities and how to manually drag and drop activities to make our workflow, all this in the user-friendly interface provided by UiPath...