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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)

Finding and attaching windows

In this section, we are going to use the Attach Window activity.

The Attach Window activity can be found in the Activities panel. This activity is generally used to attach an already opened window. It is also auto-generated when we record actions using the Basic or Desktop recorder. You will get a much clearer idea after going through the example in the following section.

Implementing the Attach Window activity

In this example, we shall use the Attach Window activity manually. Here, we are going to attach a Notepad window and then write some text into it:

  1. Create a blank project and give it a meaningful name.
  2. Drag and drop a Flowchart activity on the Designer panel. Also, drag and drop a Click...