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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)

Logging errors and sending email notifications

Let's log the error, as well as email the user in case of errors. To do that, copy the log and email steps from the section Notifying the user in case of insufficient data or add new ones as follows:

  1. We will add a new Email Send action. In the To address field, we add the EmailID variable, along with a Subject and Message body, as shown in the following screenshot. In the Send email as property, choose Outlook:

  1. Also, add a Log File action to the ExecutionLog.txt file path with the text $System:Machine$- Error- $errorMessage$. User Creation Failed, as shown in the following screenshot:

That completes the configuration for the automation. Let's now run it with a file trigger.