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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)

Moving the PDF to the Processed folder on success

If the flag is Success, the new user was created and we can move the request PDF to the Processed folder:

  1. Let's check the Confirm variable for the flag. To do this, add a new If action with String condition set to the variables given in the screenshot:

  1. Within this If action, let's first log a success message. We'll add a Log to file action and indicate that the new user was added, as follows: $System:Machine$-INFO - New User Creation was successful.
  2. Since the new user was added successfully, let's move the request PDF file to the Processed folder. For that, we will copy and delete the file by means of the following steps:
    • Add a File Copy action with the source file as the PDF and the destination folder as the Processed folder. You can choose to overwrite existing files. 
    • Add a delay of 2 seconds by adding a Delay action. 
    • Then, delete the original file by adding a File...