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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)

Credential management

In the Windows operating system, you can view your network login credentials, that is, the username and password, by using Credential Manager.
With the help of UiPath Studio, you can automate the process of creating, manipulating, and deleting credentials using some credential activities:

The following are credential activities:

  1. Add Credential activity: You can add a credential activity for use in your project. You just simply have to specify the username and the password.
  2. Get Credential activity: This activity is used to store the username and password for future use. It enables us to further check whether credentials are valid or not.
  3. Request Credential activity: This activity is used to display a dialog box to a user asking them about their credentials. It then stores the username and password in string variables that can be further used to log in to...