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Robotic Process Automation Projects

By : Nandan Mullakara, Arun Kumar Asokan
Book Image

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)

Reading parameters from the configuration file

We will use a separate workflow to read the configuration parameters and pass them to the main workflow. So, let's create the new sequence file by clicking on New on the UiPath Studio ribbon and choosing the Sequence option. Name the new sequence ReadConfig.xaml and click on Create.

In this sequence file, we will open the Config.xlsx file that we created in the previous section, read the values, and store them as Dictionary arguments. Then, we will pass this Dictionary variable with the populated key-value pairs back to Main for the automation process to use.  

The UiPath Dictionary variable or argument type is used to store key-value pairs. 

Let's open the ReadConfig.xaml sequence and step through how to create the workflow:

  1. Add an input String argument called in_ConfigFile with a default value of Config.xlsx. Add an Output argument of the Dictionary type called...