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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

Launching an assistant bot on a keyboard event

Let us say we want our assistant bot to start automating only when we trigger an event. For example, the user wants his Robot to open and start typing in the Notepad window when he presses Alt + W. This can be achieved using the Hotkey trigger. Also, inside the Event handler, just create or record the sequence of steps to be followed. The detailed procedure has been explained in the following sections:

  1. Drag and drop the Monitor events activity: In this step, we will just drag and drop the Monitor events activity into the workflow. When we double-click on it, it will look like this:
  1. Drag the Hotkey trigger activity: In the next step, we will use the Hotkey trigger activity for the user to start the automation process. Assign Alt + W to the hotkey so that, when the user presses this hotkey, the event will be executed:
  1. Open Notepad...
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