Learning Robotic Process Automation: Create Software robots and automate business processes with the leading RPA tool – UiPath

Cover
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: What is Robotic Process Automation?
	Scope and techniques of automation
		What should be automated?
		What can be automated?
		Techniques of automation 
	Robotic process automation
		What can RPA do?
		Benefits of RPA
		Components of RPA
			Recorder
			Development studio
			Extensions and plugins
			Bot runner
			Control center
		RPA platforms
			Automation Anywhere
			UiPath
			Blue Prism
			WorkFusion
			Thoughtonomy
			KOFAX
	About UiPath
		UiPath Studio
		UiPath Robot
		UiPath Orchestrator
	The future of automation
	Summary
Chapter 2: Record and Play
	UiPath stack
		UiPath Studio
		UiPath Robot
			Types of Robots
		UiPath Orchestrator
	Downloading and installing UiPath Studio
	Learning UiPath Studio
		Projects
		The user interface
			The Ribbon
			The Quick Access Toolbar
			Designer panel
			Properties panel
			Activities panel
			Project panel
			Outline panel
			Output panel
			Library panel
			Variable panel
			Argument
	Task recorder
		 Advanced UI interactions
			Input methods
			Output methods
	Step-by-step examples using the recorder
		Emptying trash in Gmail
		Emptying Recycle Bin
	Summary
Chapter 3: Sequence, Flowchart, and Control Flow
	Sequencing the workflow 
		What is a Sequence?
	Activities 
		Using activities with workflows
		What Flowcharts are and when to use them
	Control flow, various types of loops, and decision making
		The Assign activity
		The Delay activity
			Example
		The Break activity
			Example
		The While activity
			Example
		The Do while activity
			Example
		The For each activity
			Example
		The If activity
		The Switch activity
			Example
	Step-by-step example using Sequence and Flowchart
		How to use a Sequence
		How to use a Flowchart
	Step-by-step example using Sequence and Control flow
	Summary
Chapter 4: Data Manipulation
	Variables and scope
	Collections
	Arguments – Purpose and use
	Data table usage with examples
		Building a data table
		Building a data table using data scraping (dynamically)
	Clipboard management
	File operation with step-by-step example
		Read cell
		Write cell
		Read range
		Write range
		Append range
	CSV/Excel to data table and vice versa (with a step-by-step example)
		Reading an Excel file and creating a data table by using data from the Excel file
		Creating a data table and then writing all its data to an Excel file
	Summary
Chapter 5: Taking Control of the Controls
	Finding and attaching windows
		Implementing the Attach Window activity
	Finding the control
		Anchor base
		Element Exists
		Element scope
		Find children
		Find element
		Find relative element
		Get ancestor
		Indicate on screen
	Techniques for waiting for a control
		Wait Element Vanish
		Wait Image Vanish
		Wait attribute
	Act on controls – mouse and keyboard activities
		Mouse activities
			The Click activity
			The Double-click activity
			The Hover activity
		Keyboard activities
			Send hotkey
			Type into activity
			Type secure text
	Working with UiExplorer
	Handling events
		Element triggering events
			Click trigger
			Key press trigger
		Image triggering events
		System triggering events
			Hotkey trigger
			Mouse trigger
			System trigger
	Revisit recorder
		Basic recording
		Desktop recording
		Web recording
		Citrix
	Screen Scraping
	When to use OCR
	Types of OCR available
	How to use OCR
	Avoiding typical failure points
		 Selectors
		 Scope of the variable
		 Delay activity
		 Element Exists
		Try/Catch 
		toString
	Summary
Chapter 6: Tame that Application with Plugins and Extensions
	Terminal plugin
	SAP automation
		How SAP Automation affects data entry jobs
		Examples where SAP automation is used commonly
	Java plugin
		Why are we using the Java plugin with UiPath Studio?
	Citrix automation
		How does the Citrix environment work?
	Mail plugin
	PDF plugin
	Web integration
	Excel and Word plugins
		Excel plugin
		Word plugin
	Credential management
	Extensions – Java, Chrome, Firefox, and Silverlight
	Summary
Chapter 7: Handling User Events and Assistant Bots
	What are assistant bots?
	Monitoring system event triggers
		Hotkey trigger
		Mouse trigger
		System trigger
	Monitoring image and element triggers
		An example of monitoring email
		Example of monitoring a copying event and blocking it
	Launching an assistant bot on a keyboard event
	Summary
Chapter 8: Exception Handling, Debugging, and Logging
	Exception handling 
	Common exceptions and ways to handle them
		Unavailability of UI element
		Handling runtime exceptions 
		Orbit reference not set to the instant of an object
		Index was outside the bounds of an array. Index out of the range
		Image not found in the provided timeout
		Click Generic error - cannot use UI CONTROL API on this UI node please use UI Hardware ELEMENTS method
	Logging and taking screenshots
		Client logging
		Server logging
	Debugging techniques
		Setting breakpoints
		Slow step
		Highlighting
		Break
	Collecting crash dumps
		Enabling crash dumps
		Disabling crash dumps
	Error reporting
		Enterprise Edition customers
		Community Edition users
	Summary
Chapter 9: Managing and Maintaining the Code
	Project organization
		Picking an appropriate layout for each workflow
			Blank
			Simple process
			Agent process improvement
			Transactional business process
		Breaking the process into smaller parts
		Using exception handling
		Making your workflow readable
		Keeping it clean
	Nesting workflows
		How to nest a workflow inside a single workflow
	Reusability of workflows
		Invoke workflow file
		Templates
			Adding a workflow as a template
	Commenting techniques
	State Machine
	When to use Flowcharts, State Machines, or Sequences
	Using config files and examples of a config file
	Integrating a TFS server
	Summary
Chapter 10: Deploying and Maintaining the Bot
	Publishing using publish utility
		How to publish a workflow in UiPath
			Writing/editing the published package info into the .json file
	Overview of Orchestration Server
		Queues
		Assets
		Process
			Deploying a process
	Using Orchestration Server to control bots
		Robot statuses
		Editing the Robot
		Deleting the Robot
		Displaying logs for a Robot
	Using Orchestration Server to deploy bots
		Creating a provision Robot from the Orchestrator
			 Connecting a Robot to Orchestrator
			Deploy the Robot to Orchestrator
	License management
		Activating and uploading a license to Orchestrator
	Publishing and managing updates
		Packages
		Managing packages
			Uploading packages
			Deleting packages
	Summary
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