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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)

Inputting data into the RPA challenge forms

We will be using the UiPath Anchorbase activity here to find the form labels. We are using this activity since the fields can move and we do not have a reliable selector:

  1. Let's make the automation open the Google Chrome browser and go to rpachallenge.com. To do that, add an Open Browser activity, specify the browser type as Chrome, and specify the URL to the RPA challenge website.
  1. Next, add a Click activity and point to the START button on the RPA challenge page in the Chrome browser.
  2. We will now iterate through all the rows of the Data Table and use that data to fill in the forms. To do that, let's add a row in the ForEach activity and update the Data Table value to the dataTable variable, as shown:

  1. Let's now add a new sequence to the body called Update the Form Sequence to organize the input activities. Within this sequence, add an Anchor Base activity. For this activity's properties...