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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)

What are assistant bots?

Assistant Robots are front office Robots that require some user interaction. In this case, the automation will run only when a certain event or user action is triggered.

Trigger events are basically commands to tell the Robot to start its automation process.

For example, say I want some text to be typed into the Notepad application. In particular, I want the Robot to type into the Notepad once I click on the text area (clicking being the trigger activity in this case) in the Notepad application.

Let us look at the following steps to understand more:

  1. Drag and drop the Monitor events activity: Here, we drag and drop a Monitor events activity from the Activities panel inside which the trigger events will work; otherwise it will show you an error. The Monitor events activity looks like this:
  1. Drag and drop the trigger activity of choice: In the drop trigger...