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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)

Looping through the employee list and sending text messages 

In this section, we will read each of the Excel rows and invoke the Child bot so that we can send messages to employees on the list:

  1. Let's add another Step action so that we can logically separate out this block. Add a Step Action and name it Loop through Employee List and send Text Messages.
  1. Within this Step, add a Loop Action. We will iterate for each row in the worksheet and assign the current value to a new Record variable, which we will call CurrentRow, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. Now, we can get the employee name and number from this record variable. As you may recall, Employee Name was in the first column and Employee Number was in the second column. Let's assign them to two new variables:
    • Use String: Assign to assign $CurrentRow[0]$ (the first column) to a new String variable called ReceiverName
    • Also, add another String: Assign to assign the next column...