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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)

Testing the BuildExcelList workflow

In this section, we will invoke the BuildExcelList workflow from the main workflow and check whether the output Excel file has been updated with the image paths:

  1. Go back to the main workflow and add a new sequence, just after the Config Sequence. Let's call this sequence Read Images and Build List Sequence
  2. Within this sequence, we'll add an Invoke Workflow File activity and point this activity to BuildExcelList.xaml
  1. Next, click on Import Arguments and map InputFolder and OutputFolder to the variables we created to store the values we retrieved from the configuration file, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. Once you have mapped the variables, it is time to unit test. Go ahead and click on Run from the UiPath Studio ribbon. Once the run is complete, open the ImageDetails.xlsx file in the output folder to check whether the correct image paths have been captured. 

Now that we...