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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)

Looping through each row and column

Let's now loop through the entire data table variable to input the Excel data to the RPA challenge website:

  1. Add a Loop action. Choose For each row in table for the Iterator property and excelTable -Table for Table variable, and then create a new Record variable called currentrow:

  1. Let's now add the variables we will use in automation. Both of these variables will be used as a counter in our loops. 
    1. Create a variable called currentIteration with a Number type. Check both Use as input and Use as output as the variable will be used for both input and output. 
    2. Add another variable called counterstring with a String type, which will also be used for both input and output. counterstring will hold the same value as currentIteration, just with a different type:

  1. Within the loop, we will start by initializing the counter we just created. we'll shift to List view...