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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)

Extracting user details with String operations

We will now perform a few String operations to read the values for the respective fields of Email, Name, and Role from the Row variables. We will then pass these variables to a Child bot to create the new user. Let's implement the following steps: 

  1. We'll start by adding a new Step action. We can set the Title to String Operations to get Email, Full Name, and Role details.

  2. Within this step, let's add a String Extract Text action to extract the email ID. We will use EmailRow as the Source string, and colon (:) as Get Characters - Start after text, as shown in the following screenshot. Assign the output to a new String variable called EmailID by scrolling down the properties (not shown here – refer to the next screenshot under step 3):

  1. Similar to the preceding step, we will use two more String Extract Text actions to extract the full Name and Role details. Use the variables...