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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)

Monitoring image and element triggers

With an image trigger, the events will occur once the user has clicked on a certain image that is indicated in the Click Image Trigger activity.

By clicking on Indicate element on screen, we have to select an image that will trigger the event when clicked.

In the Element Trigger, there are two activities that come into play. These are Click Trigger and Key Press Trigger as shown in the following screenshot:

  • The Click trigger activity is used to trigger events when a user simply clicks on a UI element:
  • The Key press trigger activity is used when we need to trigger events by pressing a certain key or by selecting the image on the screen to trigger events:

An example of monitoring email

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