In order to make the UiPath platform fully operational at an enterprise level, there are various components that need to be in place. There are three basic components in UiPath:

1. UiPath Studio
2. UiPath Robot
3. UiPath Orchestrator

The UiPath platform is available in two variations:

1. Enterprise Edition: This edition is suitable for large companies starting their RPA projects and looking to scale their Robot deployments in the future. It is integrated with UiPath Orchestrator (we will discuss UiPath Orchestrator later). This version can be updated by visiting the UiPath website and by downloading the newest version of the UiPath platform installer. Running the installer automatically replaces all the old files without modifying any of your settings.
2. Community Edition: This is suitable for individual developers and small organizations with fewer employees. The Community...

To learn UiPath, you need the software. Fortunately, UiPath has provided multiple options to learn and use the platform. You may get a free trial for 60 days, which is the fully working Enterprise Edition, or you may opt for the Community Edition, which is free for learning purposes. Commercial use, however, is not allowed.

UiPath Community Edition is free to use in academia, nonprofits, and small businesses with an annual turnover of less than $1 million or 250 workstations. (This may change over time, so please check license agreements at the time of downloading).

The UiPath Community Edition has the following features:

• Auto update
• No server integration...

The UiPath Studio platform helps to design Robotic processes with a visual interface. Automation in UiPath Studio requires no or very little prior programming knowledge. It is a Flowchart-based modeling tool. Thus, automation is faster and more convenient. The presence of a visual signal that points out errors in the model, along with the recorder, which performs what users execute, makes modeling much easier.

We will study UiPath Studio in detail now. First and foremost, let us understand the types of project available and which should be used when.

The main types of project supported by UiPath Studio are as follows:

• Sequence: This is suitable for simple actions or tasks. It enables you to...

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...

In this section, we will illustrate two examples of using the UiPath recorder:

1. Emptying the trash folder in Gmail
2. Emptying Recycle Bin

The first one is to show a recording of a web-based application, and the second is Windows-based. These are very simple examples, and show how a simple task can be automated quickly.

This is an example of how we can empty a folder in Gmail with the help of a UiPath Robot, solely on the basis of recording.

To do this, we are going to record all the actions that have to be performed to empty this Trash folder so that our Robot understands the sequence to be performed.

We can see the process flow of this simple activity in the...

In this chapter, we have learned about components of the UiPath platform and their functions. In the next chapter, readers will examine the project that we generated with the recorder, explain the structure of the program flow (workflow), and understand the use of sequences and the nesting of activities. Readers will learn how to use the building blocks of a workflow Flowchart and control flow (looping and decision making).