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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)

Clipboard management

Clipboard management involves managing the activities of the clipboard, for example, getting text from the clipboard, copying selected text from the clipboard, and so on.

Let us see an example of getting text from the clipboard.

In this example, we will use Notepad. We will open Notepad, write some data into it, and then copy the data to the clipboard. We will then extract the data from the clipboard:

  1. Drag and drop a Flowchart activity from the Activities panel.
  2. Click on the Recording icon on the top of UiPath Studio. A drop-down menu will appear with the options, Basic, Desktop, Web, and Citrix, indicating the different types of recording. Select Desktop and click on Record.
  3. Click on Notepad to open it. A Notepad window will pop up:
  1. Click on the text area of Notepad. Type into the dialog box and check the empty field. (Checking the empty field will erase...