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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)

Handling PO entry errors 

There are times when the PO application will throw error messages. This could happen when the automation has issues entering data into the mandatory fields. Let's handle such a scenario so that we can continue to the next transaction:

  1. Let's generate an error message in our PO application. Go to the Apptivo PO application and create the PO without filling out any details. The application will throw an error as follows:

  1. Now that we have the error message, let's handle it by pressing Ok to continue.
  1. Let's go to UiPath Studio and add an Element Exists activity right after the Create Click activity. Indicate the Error dialog header in the browser and update the properties as follows:
    • WaitForReady within TargetWaitForReady.COMPLETE
    • For Exists within Output, create a new variable called boolError:

  1. Let's add an If control activity with the Not boolError condition to check if the...