Summary
This chapter has covered some key elements of implementing RPA in relation to your daily tasks. Understanding how to interact with web and desktop applications is what we humans do. All the tasks that we perform while sitting in front of a computer involve interacting with an application of some sort. This interaction may involve selecting or clicking on objects as well as entering inputs using the keyboard.
The walk-throughs in this chapter have given you the practical knowledge to enable you to create bots that navigate through applications, as well as read and enter text. You will be confident with capturing objects such as textboxes and drop-down lists, as well as tabs and buttons. Your journey to becoming an RPA developer is truly underway.
You are doing great work and will continue building on this in the next chapter, where we will explore how to perform string manipulation. This includes creating and looping through List
type variables when working with strings...