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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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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

Reusability of workflows

Reusing workflows makes the automation process easier and better since we can use earlier created workflows in our project that we are trying to use for automation. There are two methods for this:

  • Invoke workflow file
  • Templates

Invoke workflow file is a good process if we have a complex automation project. We can divide it into smaller parts. By using the Invoke workflow file activity, we can invoke all those files in our project and collect all these smaller parts in a single workflow. However, if we want to invoke a previously created workflow in our project and make changes to the latter, the former will also get affected. Hence, it is recommended to use the Invoke workflow file activity only when we have a complex workflow:

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As shown in the preceding screenshot, the Invoke workflow file activity requires the path to its associated...

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