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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)

Creating a new user in Freshsales

We will create a new user by inputting the data we got from the Parent bot. To input data, we will use the Capture action as we did in Chapter 7Sales Order Processing:

  1. Let's start by adding a Try block to handle any errors. We will add the Catch block toward the end to return a failure flag. 
  2. Within the Try block, add a Step action with a Title of Create a new user in Freshsales.
  1. Let's now add the steps, starting with a Recorder Capture action to click on the Add user button in Freshsales. In Object detail, choose Window and then the User Admin Settings window from the drop-down. Click on Capture Objectas shown in the following screenshot, and point to the Add user button on Freshsales:

Then, set Action to Click and set the properties as shown in the following screenshot: 

Make sure you choose and use stable object properties. You may need to do some trial...