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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)

Testing the automation

It is now time to test the User Administration - Add new user automation. Before we run the automation, let's ensure the following: 

  • You have a PDF file with the user request information, as we saw in the Project groundwork section. 
  • The email address was never added to Freshsales before. (Please refer to the following info box for more on this.)
  • In the Freshsales browser window, ensure that you are on the Users: Admin Settings window.
Note that you have to change the email ID every time you run the test. Freshsales remembers all the emails added. If it sees an email that was already assigned to a user even if the record was deleted. 

Once you have got all this right, run the Parent bot using the Run with triggers option and specify the input file as UserRequest.pdf. Once the file is created, the bot will process the request, add a new user, and place the request PDF in the Processed folder.

You can also run for exception...