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Learning Robotic Process Automation

By : Alok Mani Tripathi
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Learning Robotic Process Automation

By: Alok Mani Tripathi

Overview of this book

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) enables automating business processes using software robots. Software robots interpret, trigger responses, and communicate with other systems just like humans do. Robotic processes and intelligent automation tools can help businesses improve the effectiveness of services faster and at a lower cost than current methods. This book is the perfect start to your automation journey, with a special focus on one of the most popular RPA tools: UiPath. Learning Robotic Process Automation takes you on a journey from understanding the basics of RPA to advanced implementation techniques. You will become familiar with the UiPath interface and learn about its workflow. Once you are familiar with the environment, we will get hands-on with automating applications such as Excel, SAP, Windows and web applications, screen and web scraping, working with user events, and we'll cover exceptions and debugging. By the end of the book, you'll not only be able to build your first software robot, but you'll also wire it up to perform various automation tasks with the help of best practices for robot deployment.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Citrix automation

We have previously dealt with common automations—automating desktop applications or web applications. It is easy when we deal with these applications having graphical user interfaces. UiPath identifies the elements that we have clicked on and recognizes them. Thus, the next time the Robot executes a process, it successfully identifies the same element. We have already seen these types of action.

But what if we have a remote desktop connection and we need to automate an application using this remote desktop connection? It will be a tedious job.

Can we automate an application running on another machine while we are accessing it remotely with the activities that we have used with simple GUI? The answer is no.

Let's investigate why this is so. Suppose we have to automate a desktop application so that the Robot does all the necessary actions on that application...