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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 rows and invoking the Child bot

Let's open up the Parent bot if you do not have it already open. We will continue from where we left off within the Try block.

We will add a Step action to group together the actions in this section. We have named it Loop, Invoke and add to Excel. You can add a title that makes sense to you. Within this step, let's perform these steps:

  1. Add a variable to keep a counter as we loop through the data table records. Let's call it currentIteration and choose Number for Type. Check both Use as Input and Use as Output.
  2. Add another variable to store the output we receive from the Child bot. We will call it dictOutput and choose Dictionary for Type. Check Use as Output.
The dictOutput Dictionary variable stores the key-value pair with all the output variables in the Child bot. In our case, we are using this to retrieve the value of the SO number using the SalesOrder output variable defined in the Child...