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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

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We have previously dealt with common automations—automating desktop applications or web applications. It is easy when we deal with these applications having graphical user interfaces. UiPath identifies the elements that we have clicked on and recognizes them. Thus, the next time the Robot executes a process, it successfully identifies the same element. We have already seen these types of action.

But what if we have a remote desktop connection and we need to automate an application using this remote desktop connection? It will be a tedious job.

Can we automate an application running on another machine while we are accessing it remotely with the activities that we have used with simple GUI? The answer is no.

Let's investigate why this is so. Suppose we have to automate a desktop application so that the Robot does all the necessary actions on that application...

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