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Democratizing RPA with Power Automate Desktop

You're reading from   Democratizing RPA with Power Automate Desktop Boost your productivity by implementing best practices for automating repetitive desktop processes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803245942
Length 308 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Power Automate Desktop 2. Chapter 2: Using Power Automate Desktop and Creating Our First Flow FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Editing and Debugging UI Flows 4. Chapter 4: Basic Structure Elements and Flow Control 5. Chapter 5: Variables, UI Elements, and Images 6. Chapter 6: Actions for UI Automation 7. Chapter 7: Automate Your Desktop and Workstation 8. Chapter 8: Automating Standard Business Applications 9. Chapter 9: Leveraging Cloud Services and Power Platform 10. Chapter 10: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence 11. Chapter 11: Working with APIs and Services 12. Chapter 12: PAD Enterprise Best Practices 13. Index 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a PowerPoint system report by using mouse and keyboard actions

The following example uses some of the actions that we just learned about. We want to create a flow that collects some information about the current system, stores this in a PowerPoint slide deck, and saves that report on OneDrive. This would require a series of mouse clicks and key sends for this operation.

Please notice that we are not using UI elements for this example, which would also be a very good option. Instead, we want to simulate the user session with the previously defined actions. So, let’s take a look at what the flow looks like:

Figure 7.15 – A flow to create a PowerPoint system report

Figure 7.15 – A flow to create a PowerPoint system report

As we can see here, the flow is again structured into some subflows for easier readability and maintainability. The first subflow opens PowerPoint by using the Windows button, and the second one creates the first introduction slide with the current date. The third subflow...

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