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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)

Using the recorder to capture SO creation

Within the newly created bot, we will add a Step action to logically separate out the recorder steps to create SO. Within this Step action, we will first click on the Create button and then choose the Order option on Apptivo. To do that, let's follow these steps:

  1. Add a Record variable, which we will use to pass data from the Parent bot. Go to Variables on the left pane (just below Actions and Triggers) and click on the plus sign.
  2. We will name the variable RowRecord of type Record and check Use as input, as shown here:

  1. Add a Recorder Capture action to click on the Create button on the Apptivo Orders screen. 
  2. In the properties for Capture, choose Window for Object detail, then refresh the input box by clicking the icon on the right.
  3. Choose the Orders | Apptivo - Google Chrome window from the dropdown. Click on Capture object, as shown here, and point to the Create button on Apptivo in Chrome...