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Robotic Process Automation Projects

By : Nandan Mullakara, Arun Kumar Asokan
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Robotic Process Automation Projects

By: Nandan Mullakara, Arun Kumar Asokan

Overview of this book

Robotic Process automation helps businesses to automate monotonous tasks that can be performed by machines. This project-based guide will help you progress through easy to more advanced RPA projects. You’ll learn the principles of RPA and how to architect solutions to meet the demands of business automation, along with exploring the most popular RPA tools - UiPath and Automation Anywhere. In the first part, you’ll learn how to use UiPath by building a simple helpdesk ticket system. You’ll then automate CRM systems by integrating Excel data with UiPath. After this, the book will guide you through building an AI-based social media moderator using Google Cloud Vision API. In the second part, you’ll learn about Automation Anywhere's latest Cloud RPA platform (A2019) by creating projects such as an automated ERP administration system, an AI bot for order and invoice processing, and an automated emergency notification system for employees. Later, you’ll get hands-on with advanced RPA tasks such as invoking APIs, before covering complex concepts such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning in automation to take your understanding of RPA to the next level. By the end of the book, you’ll have a solid foundation in RPA with experience in building real-world projects.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Project setup

Let's create a new project for our automation using the UiPath template:

  1. On the first UiPath studio screen that pops up, select the project called Trigger Based Attended Automation. This will use a predefined UiPath template to create an attended automation project:

  1. Next up, provide a name for your project and an optional description and click on Create:

  1. On the Studio main screen, click Open Main Workflow to get to the main workflow.
  2. Your initial workflow should look like the following. Go ahead and remove the five unwanted activities highlighted in the following screenshot by right-clicking and selecting Delete:

  1. Once done, ensure that you save the project and keep doing so periodically.

The project is now set up. We are now ready to configure the initial part of the automation.