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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

Task recorder

The task recorder is the main reason for RPA's success. With the task recorder, we can create a basic framework for automation. The user's actions on the screen are recorded by the recorder and turned into a recording sequence in the current project. That's how Robots are able to mimic human actions.

The recording is collection of execution steps that has to be taken, on the applications in the scope, in order to accomplish a task.

These steps can be recorded one by one (manually) by pointing it on the screen or many steps in a go that is, automatically.

There are four types of recording in UiPath Studio:

  • Basic
  • Desktop
  • Web
  • Citrix

We will talk about them later. The user can modify the recorded sequence even after the recording is over. This is especially helpful in cases where small changes have to be made to the recording sequence. The option to...

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