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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)

Creating the RPA challenge automation bot

We will create the bot in the Control Room interface on our browser. To create the bot, let's follow these steps:

  1. In the A2019 control room, go to the Home option in the left-hand side pane. 
  2. Once there, click on Create a bot..., as shown:

  1. Provide a name for your bot and click on Create a bot... This will take you to the Edit Task Bot interface, where you can configure the automation.
  1. We'll first check whether the connection to the controller is working okay by adding a message box and running the bot. To do that, search for Message box in the Actions pane. Drag and drop it into the workflow and configure its properties. Let's set Enter the message to display as A2019 Bot is Attempting RPA Challenge and check Close message box after to close the message box automatically after 5 seconds:

  1. Click on Save to save your bot so far. Go ahead and click on Run to execute...