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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 detail

In this section, we'll look at the overall flow for this project in terms of the UiPath project components we will be building and their interaction.

We will have a main workflow called Main.xaml that will invoke other workflows and orchestrate the automation. From this workflow, we will invoke the ReadConfig.xaml file to read the configuration parameters – the input and output file paths and Google Authentication. 

The reason we have a configuration file is to avoid hardcoding values in the automation process. This also gives users the option to update the parameters without making any code changes. 

With the configuration parameters, we will invoke the BuildExcelList.xaml file in order to read the images placed in the Input folder and create a list of images that we'd like to pass to the Google Vision SafeSearch API. We will create this image list, which includes the image's filename, and their path, which will be placed...