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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

In this chapter, we examined the project that was generated by the recorder and saw an explanation of the structure of the program flow (workflow). We understood the use of Sequences and the nesting of activities. We learned how to use the building blocks of a workflow, Flowchart, and Control flow (looping and decision making).

In the next chapter, we will learn techniques to use memory with variables, and we will also learn about using data tables to store and easily manipulate data in memory. The next chapter will also show how disk files (CSV, Excel, and so on) are used to persist data.