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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)

Terminal plugin

The Terminal plugin is used to execute commands in textual format (generally a black window). It works faster than the Graphical User Interface (GUI) methodology. It also has a broader scope in terms of authority and permissions.

In UiPath Studio, there is a NuGet Package called UiPath.Terminal.Activities. Terminal activity is pre-installed in UiPath Studio. In case it is not installed, we have to install it manually. To check whether the Terminal activity is installed or not, simply search for Terminal in the Activities panel. It will list all the terminal activities. If no activities are listed in the Activities panel, you have to install the UiPath.Terminal.Activities package.

To install Terminal activity NuGet Package, click on the Manage Package icon, as shown in the following screenshot:

The Manage Packages window will appear. Search for terminal in the...