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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)

Passing the configuration parameters to the main workflow

Now, let's get back to the main workflow, Main.xaml, and continue from where we left off:

  1. Add an Invoke Workflow File activity, right after the log message that we had added within the main sequence's Try block. Within the Invoke activity, set the workflow filename to ReadConfig.xaml.
  2. To read in the arguments, we'll need to add a couple of variables. Create a new variable called Config of the Dictionary type (Dictionary<String, Object>) and set the scope to a Try-Catch block.
  3. Add three more variables to store the config file values: strInputFolder, strOutputFolder, and strGoogleAuthName. All these variables are of the String type and the Sequence scope.
  4. Click on Import Arguments within the activity and map the newly created variable to the output argument values, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. Next, let's use three Assign activities to store the outputs...