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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)

Setting up the project

For this project, we will start with a blank project and design Automation within that. Let's get started:

  1. Launch UiPath Studio and choose Process under the New Project group, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. On the popup for New Process, go ahead and provide a name and description for the project and click on Create. On the Studio screen, choose Open Main Workflow, as we did in the previous chapter, to get to the initial screen.
  1. We'll choose to start with a blank process, which means we have to build everything from scratch. Let's start by adding a Sequence UiPath activity and renaming it Main Sequence. You can just click on the name on the Activity box and add the name Main Sequence. This is optional but recommended as it gives better readability to your workflows. You can see this Sequence in the following screenshot (in the next section), along with the other Sequences. 

Within this Main Sequence...