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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)

Preparing to input PO data

Before we input the POs, let's initiate the PO creation and assign and validate the data:

  1. To create a new PO, we start by clicking the Create button in Apptivo. Within Process.xaml, and under the Activate activity we added in the last section, let's add a mouse Click activity. Within this activity, highlight the Create button on the Apptivo PO application.
  2. Next, we'll check if the Supplier input field is available for input. So, use a Find Element activity and point to the input box next to the Supplier label. For this activity, ensure that you check the WaitVisible and WaitActive options so that the activity waits for the Supplier input box to become visible and active. Your workflow for this part will look like this:

  1. Now, let's assign the values we have in the queue to the PO variables. To do this, we will use the Assign activity. Add six Assign activities as follows: 
    • Assign strSupplier to in_TransactionItem...