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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)

Invoking the RequestCustomerDetails workflow from the Main workflow

Now, we will go back to the Main workflow and invoke the customer information lookup workflow that we created in the previous section. Let's start by creating a variable that we'll use to store the company data:

  1. In the Main.xaml file, create a new data table variable, call it dtCompanyData, and set its scope to Main Sequence. Let's also set the default values for both dtCompanyList and dtCompanyData to New System.Data.DataTable, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. Now that we have the variable, let's add a new Sequence below the Customer List Sequence called Request Customer details Sequence and add the Invoke Workflow file activity. Point the activity to RequestCustomerDetails.xaml, click on Import arguments, and map the arguments to the respective input and output data table variables, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. To test what we have so far, let&apos...