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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)

Tame that Application with Plugins and Extensions

So far, you have learned how to record steps to automate and also learn about control flow, and the use of variables and data tables. The most important part was understanding and mastering controls. Unless you are able to identify controls of an application properly, it is not possible to successfully automate a process. Now, in this chapter, we will step up to learn how to use external plugins and extensions. UiPath has many plugins and extensions to ease UI automation, apart from basic extraction and interaction with the desktop screen. These plugins allow us to directly interact with those applications or ease UI automation. Some of the important sections that are going to be covered in this chapter are:

  • Terminal plugin
  • SAP Automation
  • Java plugin
  • Citrix Automation
  • Mail plugin
  • PDF plugin
  • Web integration
  • Excel and Word plugins...