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Learning Robotic Process Automation

You're reading from   Learning Robotic Process Automation Create Software robots and automate business processes with the leading RPA tool – UiPath

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788470940
Length 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alok Mani Tripathi Alok Mani Tripathi
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. What is Robotic Process Automation? FREE CHAPTER 2. Record and Play 3. Sequence, Flowchart, and Control Flow 4. Data Manipulation 5. Taking Control of the Controls 6. Tame that Application with Plugins and Extensions 7. Handling User Events and Assistant Bots 8. Exception Handling, Debugging, and Logging 9. Managing and Maintaining the Code 10. Deploying and Maintaining the Bot 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Clipboard management

Clipboard management involves managing the activities of the clipboard, for example, getting text from the clipboard, copying selected text from the clipboard, and so on.

Let us see an example of getting text from the clipboard.

In this example, we will use Notepad. We will open Notepad, write some data into it, and then copy the data to the clipboard. We will then extract the data from the clipboard:

  1. Drag and drop a Flowchart activity from the Activities panel.
  2. Click on the Recording icon on the top of UiPath Studio. A drop-down menu will appear with the options, Basic, Desktop, Web, and Citrix, indicating the different types of recording. Select Desktop and click on Record.
  3. Click on Notepad to open it. A Notepad window will pop up:
  1. Click on the text area of Notepad. Type into the dialog box and check the empty field. (Checking the empty field will erase...
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