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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)

Exception handling 

Let's add an error handler try-catch to exit gracefully if there are errors.

  1. To do that, look up Error handler and then drag and drop the Try action. We will add most of the automation steps in this Try block in the next few sections. 
  2. Before we do that, add the Catch action below Try.
  3. In the Catch properties, choose an Exception type of AllErrors.
  4. Create a String variable called errorMessage to store the error message.
  5. Click on the wizard icon on the right of the input box to create new variables, as shown here:

  1. Click on Apply to apply the properties.
  2. Then, within the Catch, add a message box with the message Following error happened $errorMessage$
  3. Finally, click Save at the top to save the bot so far, before we open the SO Excel file.