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Robotic Process Automation Projects

By : Nandan Mullakara, Arun Kumar Asokan
Book Image

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 Parent bot 

Let's first create the main task bot, which we are calling the Parent bot:

  1. To do that, we'll go to My bots on the left panel and then click on Create a bot as shown here:

  1. In the popup, provide a name for the bot and click on Create & editThis creates the bot and opens the canvas for us to configure the bot's workflow. We will use the List view for this project.
As you use the A2019 List view, you may notice that it sometimes becomes difficult to insert actions where we exactly need them. You can switch to the Flow view and insert an action where you want it to be and then return to the List view. 

Let's switch to the List view on the Canvas and start with exception handling.