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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 the control

There are many activities which can be used to find controls on screen/ applications. These activities are used to find or wait for an UI element.

Following are the activities that help in finding the controls:

  • Anchor base
  • Element Exists
  • Element scope
  • Find children
  • Find element
  • Find relative element
  • Get ancestor
  • Indicate on screen

We will discuss all these controls one by one.

Anchor base

This control is used for locating the UI element by looking at the UI element next to it. This activity is used when we have no control over the selector. That means when we do not have a reliable selector, then we should use the Anchor base control to locate the UI element.

We can use the Anchor base control as explained...