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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)

Reusability of workflows

Reusing workflows makes the automation process easier and better since we can use earlier created workflows in our project that we are trying to use for automation. There are two methods for this:

  • Invoke workflow file
  • Templates

Invoke workflow file is a good process if we have a complex automation project. We can divide it into smaller parts. By using the Invoke workflow file activity, we can invoke all those files in our project and collect all these smaller parts in a single workflow. However, if we want to invoke a previously created workflow in our project and make changes to the latter, the former will also get affected. Hence, it is recommended to use the Invoke workflow file activity only when we have a complex workflow:

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As shown in the preceding screenshot, the Invoke workflow file activity requires the path to its associated...