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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)

Adding variables for the Child bot

Let's start by creating the variables we will use to populate and invoke the Twilio API. We will also create a variable that will send the response back to the Parent bot. 

For the variables that need to receive data from the Parent bot, select the Use as input option. For the ones that we need to send back, we will select the Use as output option.

Let's add the following variables, which we'll pass from the Parent bot in order to invoke Twilio. Choose the Use as input option for all these variables:

  • SenderPhoneNumber: This is a String variable that will be used to hold the phone number we will use to call employees.
  • RecieverPhoneNumber: This is a String variable that we will pass employee phone numbers through. 
  • RecieverName: This is a String variable that will be used to pass the employee names.
  • MessageContent: This is a String variable that will be used to pass the emergency notification message...