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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

Record and Play

The facility of recording user steps on a computer and playing them back has made Robotic Process Automation (RPA) highly successful. Without this feature, the adoption of the technology might have been very slow and it would have been seen as another automation/scripting tool.

In the previous chapter, we gained a basic understanding of Robotic process automation. In this chapter, we will see how to use the recorder as the first step of automation in our journey. Before that, let us understand the UiPath tool and learn how to install it (you can only use the recorder after installing it). We will cover:

  • The UiPath stack and components of the platform.
  • How to download and install UiPath components.
  • Understanding the Project Studio in detail. The Project Studio is the place where developers spend most of their time configuring the Robots.
  • The recorder, with two...
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