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Democratizing RPA with Power Automate Desktop

You're reading from   Democratizing RPA with Power Automate Desktop Boost your productivity by implementing best practices for automating repetitive desktop processes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803245942
Length 308 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Peter Krause Peter Krause
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Power Automate Desktop 2. Chapter 2: Using Power Automate Desktop and Creating Our First Flow FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Editing and Debugging UI Flows 4. Chapter 4: Basic Structure Elements and Flow Control 5. Chapter 5: Variables, UI Elements, and Images 6. Chapter 6: Actions for UI Automation 7. Chapter 7: Automate Your Desktop and Workstation 8. Chapter 8: Automating Standard Business Applications 9. Chapter 9: Leveraging Cloud Services and Power Platform 10. Chapter 10: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence 11. Chapter 11: Working with APIs and Services 12. Chapter 12: PAD Enterprise Best Practices 13. Index 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Automate Your Desktop and Workstation

In this chapter, we will take a look at the huge number of actions that that are part of system management and that also have high practical relevance. Some of these actions that we will cover in this chapter are the following:

  • Actions for workstation management, including scripting
  • Files and folders
  • Computer peripherals such as the mouse and keyboard, printers, and clipboard

We will dedicate the first part of the chapter to the action groups that make the management of a system possible before exploring the possibilities in the area of folder and file management.

The last part deals with the automatic operation of the peripheral devices of a computer. We will create a PowerPoint slide deck to document the status of a local workstation. By the end of this chapter, we will have learned that Power Automate desktop (PAD) can manage all important aspects of the local computer and that this provides a powerful tool for folder...

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