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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)

Initializing Twilio and opening the employee Excel file

First, we will initialize the common Twilio data and open the employee Excel file so that we can loop through the list of employees:

  1. We'll add a Step action and name it Initialize and Open Excel FileThere are two Twilio values that are constant for this bot as they are not based on the Excel data. Let's initialize these variables first:
    •  We'll use String Assign to assign the trial phone number we received from Twilio to a new String variable called SenderPhoneNumber. You can use the wizard at the end of the input box to create the new variables. 
    • Similarly, we'll also assign the Twilio Account SID to a new String variable called TwilioID, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. Now, let's open the Excel file so that we can loop through and read employee details. Add the Excel basic Open action and provide a desktop File path for the employee Excel file. You can provide...