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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

Taking Control of the Controls

By now, you should be able to make fairly complex workflows and take various paths using control flows. You should now know how to store and evaluate variables to make a decision. I hope you are using a recorder extensively, as we will revisit the recorder in this chapter to learn more about it.

In this chapter, we will go into detail on how we can interact with the controls in the UI. Sometimes, you may need to click on a particular button or extract information from a textbox. Either we take some action on a control, or we read/write. We will go into detail on how to do this accurately. In this chapter, readers will learn about the various selectors available in UiPath to extract and take action on controls:

  • Finding and attach windows
  • Find controls
  • Techniques to wait for a control
  • Acting on controls—mouse and keyboard activities
  • Working...
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