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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)

Creating a data table

Follow these steps to create the data table:

  1. Let's use the Build Data Table activity to build a data table for CompanyData, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. We will be looking up the customer's name and gathering their website and social media information to update our CRM. Let's create five columns for the data table so that we can gather this information. Click on DataTable in the activity and within the popup, edit and rename the existing column names. Then, use the Add column option (the plus (+) sign on left) to create the rest of the columns (Company name, Website, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter):

  1. Once added, your Data Table will look as follows. Click on OK to continue:

Make sure that you delete the default rows in the table. There is usually a row with the first column set to text as shown in the preceding screenshot. Also, ensure that all five columns are of the String type.
  1. In the properties...