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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)

Taking Control of the Controls

By now, you should be able to make fairly complex workflows and take various paths using control flows. You should now know how to store and evaluate variables to make a decision. I hope you are using a recorder extensively, as we will revisit the recorder in this chapter to learn more about it.

In this chapter, we will go into detail on how we can interact with the controls in the UI. Sometimes, you may need to click on a particular button or extract information from a textbox. Either we take some action on a control, or we read/write. We will go into detail on how to do this accurately. In this chapter, readers will learn about the various selectors available in UiPath to extract and take action on controls:

  • Finding and attach windows
  • Find controls
  • Techniques to wait for a control
  • Acting on controls—mouse and keyboard activities
  • Working...