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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)

Project detail

As with Chapter 7, Sales Order Processing, we will have a Parent bot and Child bot. The Parent bot will invoke the Child bot to create a new user in Freshsales. 

The Parent bot starts by reading the contents of the input PDF file and assigning them to a Table variable. We will loop through the Table variable, and assign each row in the Table to variables. We will then extract the necessary field values using String operations. 

With these details, we will invoke the Child bot, which enters the data in Freshsales and returns a flag indicating success or failure. If there is a failure, we send an email to the user requesting the missing data.

If successful, the user gets an email automatically from Freshsales to activate the account. The bot takes the processed request PDF and moves it to the Processed folder. 

The sequence of action is as follows: 

As with our previous projects, let's do some groundwork for the project before building these components...