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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)

Sequence, Flowchart, and Control Flow

So far we have learned what RPA is, and we have seen how simple it is to train a UiPath Robot by recording the activities of a task and running it. Automating mundane routine tasks is very easy with UiPath using the recorder. Before we start automating complex tasks, let us learn how to control the flow of activities from one to another.

In this chapter, we will learn about methods to lay down activities in an orderly fashion and how to control the flow. These are basic to any kind of programming. We will learn about putting activities in Sequences, Flowcharts, and loops. We will also look at logical control using if-else.

To train robots to process a type of transaction, it is very important to have the instructions in a methodical flow. Mostly, these instructions are executed in Sequences. Let us understand this in detail.

This chapter will...