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Learning Robotic Process Automation

By : Alok Mani Tripathi
Book Image

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 Control flow

In this session, we are going to discuss Control flow with an example. We will see how to use Control flow in a Sequence. There are the various Control flow activities, as mentioned before.

Consider an array of names. Say we have to find out how many of them start with the letter a. We will then create an automation where the number of names starting with a is counted and the result is displayed.

Perform the following steps:

  1. Drag and drop a Flowchart activity from the Activities panel.
  2. Drag and drop a Sequence activity inside the Flowchart. Connect the Sequence to the Start node by right-clicking on the Sequence activity and selecting the Set as Start node option.
  3. Double click on the Sequence activity. Create a variable. Give it a name (in our case, we will create an array of type string and name the variable as names). Set...