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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)

Handling form validation errors

Let's handle two scenarios here – form exceptions, such as data not being present or being incorrect, and then any other errors that may come up:

  1. If there are any issues with creating a new user, the form does not advance to the next page. So what we will do is check whether the Save button is still present on the page. In that case, the user addition failed and we have to return a failure flag, or else we return a success flag. To do that, let's add a Delay action for 2 seconds. Then, add an If action and set Condition to Object. Capture the Save button in the Add User Window we used in the last step, as shown in the following screenshot: 

  1. As we said, if the Save button is still around, it is a failure and we return a "No" flag. Let's add a String Assign action and set Select the source string variable(s) to No. In the Select the destination string variable property...