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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)

Handling User Events and Assistant Bots

In UiPath, there are two types of Robot that are used for automating any process. One is the back office Robot, which works in the background. It works independently, which means it does not require inputs from users or any user interaction. The other one is the Front Office Robot, which is also known as an Assistant Robot.

This chapter deals with front office bots. Here, we will learn the different ways in which events in the automation process can be triggered—by a simple press of a key, click of the mouse, and so on. To make things clearer, we will take examples of monitoring various events.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • What are assistant bots?
  • Monitoring system event triggers
  • Monitoring image and element triggers
  • Launching assistant bots on a keyboard event
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