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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)

Activities

In UiPath Studio, an activity represents the unit of an action. Each activity performs some action. When these activities combine together, it becomes a process.

Every activity resides on the Activities panel of the main Designer panel. You can search for a particular activity and use it in your project. For example, when we search for browser, all the browser activities will appear in the Activities panel, as shown in the following screenshot:

Using activities with workflows

We have seen how we can easily search for a particular activity. Now, let us see how to use them in a workflow:

  1. Search for Flowchart in the same way that we have searched for the browser activities in the Activities panel search bar. Drag...