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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)

Iterating through each column and reading headers

Let's now iterate through each of the columns in the row. We will associate each column with the corresponding header in Excel. These columns will then be mapped to the input fields on the RPA challenge website. 

We will use the If condition and a series of Else If conditions to map the iteration counter to the headers, for example, Counter#1 to First Name, and Counter#2 to Last Name. Let's follow these steps to do that:

  1. We will start by adding the If action. We will check whether it is the first column that has counterstring as 1. To indicate that, let's set the properties as follows: 
    • Condition: String condition
    • Source valuecounterstring 
    • Operator=
    • Target value: 1

This should look like the following screenshot: 

  1. Next, let's indicate that the first column at position 1 is First Name. To do that, add a String Assign action under the If...