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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)

Using config files and examples of a config file

When it comes to configuration, UiPath does not have any pre-built configuration file such as Visual Studio, but we can create one. It is considered to be one of the best practices to keep environment settings in a config file so that they can be easily changed by the user when required. Thus, when we create a project, the project.json file that holds all the activities is created automatically. Project.json can be found in the folder where the project is saved. To access the folder, we can just open the Project, then copy the path (as shown in the following screenshot), and paste it into File Explorer:

Then you can see a project.json file in File Explorer like the one shown in the following screenshot:

The following screenshot displays the code inside the project.json file, when you open that file in Notepad:

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