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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)

Capturing the PO

As a final step, we will update the PO number generated by Apptivo to the Excel spreadsheet: 

  1. Let's first open an already created PO in the Apptivo PO management application. If you do not have one already, create a new one by filling in the mandatory PO fields and clicking on Create. Then go to My POs on the left pane and open the new PO. 
  1. Go back to UiPath Studio and within the Then block, add a Find Element activity and indicate the PO number element, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. For the Find Element activity, update the selector aaname field with a wildcard character * so that any value is accepted. Check the WaitActive and WaitVisible options in the properties panel:

  1. Let's also add a log message with the level set to Info and the message "PO Created Successfully".
  1. Now that the PO is created, let's extract the PO number and store it in a variable. Add a Get Text ...