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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)

Step-by-step example using Sequence and Flowchart

A Sequence and a Flowchart are similar concepts. They are both used to contain logical steps or actions. One should know when to use each of them. Where they differ from each other is that a Sequence is generally used to contain multiple steps to perform an action. A Flowchart, on the other hand, is suitable for a particular task. When we have lots of steps of a similar kind, we contain them in a Sequence. There may be different Sequences doing their jobs. We can easily put similar Sequences into a workflow; each workflow represents a task. It is very easy to test a separate workflow alone. Let us try to understand them better with an example.

How to use a Sequence

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