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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)

Reading the RPA challenge Excel data

In this section, we will read the input data from the RPA challenge Excel file and store it in a data table. We will use the data in the data table to iterate and input the data into the RPA challenge website. Let's start by opening the Excel file:

  1. Search for Excel Basic in the Action panel to look up the Excel actions. Add the Open Excel action to open the input Excel file. Let's add the following properties:
    1. Set Session name as S1.
    2. Browse and select your RPA challenge Excel file.
    3. Select the option to open it in Read-only mode.
    4. Check the Sheet contains a header option:

  1. Add the Get multiple Cell action to capture the Excel data into a Data Table variable. For this action, set Session name as S1 and Loop through as Specific rows (inputting 1 for From row and 11 for to row) and create a Table variable called excelTable in the Assign value to the variable (optional) field, as shown:

  1. Finally,...