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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)

Updating the InitAllApplications workflow

Let's open the Apptivo application and initialize it for the project by implementing the following steps: 

  1. Double-click and get into the Init state in Main.xaml and scroll down a bit to open the workflow from Invoke InitiAllApplications workflow, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. Next, we'll define the argument to pass around between the states. In the InitAllApplications.XAML file, let's add a new output argument called out_Browser with direction Out and type Browser (UiPath.Core.Browser). Note that you can get to InitAllApplications.xaml from the Framework folder in the Project tab.
  2. Add an Open Browser activity within InitAllApplications.xaml. In the Properties for this activity, update the following:
    • Update the BrowserType to Chrome.
    • Input the following URL into the Apptivo PO app: "https://www.apptivo.com/app/purchaseorders.jsp#/dashboard/show-all/"
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