Robotic Process Automation Crash Course In 2 Hours | RPA Tutorial For Beginners | Simplilearn

[Music] hey everyone welcome to this crash course on robotic process automation aka rpa before we begin let me walk you through the content it's going to cover first we'll look at a quick introduction to rpa then i'll help you understand the top reasons to learn rpa moving on we'll work hands-on with the help of two tutorials on uipath followed by which we look at a detailed comparison between blue prism uipath and automation anywhere i will also guide you through the correct path you could take to become an rpa developer and brief you about salary and skills and lastly we look at the top interview questions that will help you crack your next rpa interview and all of this under two hours so without further ado let's begin but before that if you wish to keep yourself updated with all the cutting edge technologies then subscribe to our channel and hit the bell icon this is jim he is an accountant in a multinational company he handles several invoices and other financial records like monetary transactions liabilities checks and ledgers on a daily basis one of his tasks is to copy all the relevant information from these invoices such as the name of the company invoice id and data processing into a spreadsheet and mail the sheet along with other financial reports to his superiors by the end of the day as any prompt employee he transfers all the information to the sheet attaches the reports and sends them over to his boss via email every day but over a period he starts finding this task to be time consuming and repetitive frustrated jim looks for a way to reduce the time and effort it takes to complete the task and voila he stumbles across robotic process automation aka rpa using robotic process automation he builds a simple bot that extracts information from several invoices into an excel sheet attaches all the necessary financial reports and sends them over to his superiors via email at a specific time every day so what exactly is robotic process automation robotic process automation rpa is the use of software with artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities to handle high-volume repetitive tasks that previously required humans to perform some of these tasks include addressing queries making calculations maintenance of records and performing transactions there are several misconceptions about rpa rpa is not a humanoid robot it does not have a physical form and no resemblance to humans rpa cannot replace humans or replicate human cognitive functions it does not have a brain of its own and cannot perform logical or critical thinking as humans do the working of rpa includes four crucial phases one the planning phase typically involves gathering the processes to be automated identifying the test objects and finalizing the implementation approach two the development phase includes the creation of automation workflows as per the agreed plan three deployment and testing is a vital phase since it uncovers any unexpected outages and ensures a bug-free product four lastly there's the support and maintenance phase which ensures that the product is continuously updated with smooth deployment across the user base to meet the objectives of rpa tools are used these rpa tools are software applications that can configure tasks and automate them some of the popular rpa tools in the market are uipath automation anywhere blue prism workfusion pega and redwood among others when it comes to quality rpa ensures consistent error-free output leading to reduced operational risks this in turn improves customer satisfaction in the area of delivery rpa can help decrease the average handling time and this enhances the customer experience and ensures 24 7 business continuity with respect to cost according to nascom domestic businesses can reduce the cost by up to 65 through rpa it offers a higher roi by driving positive returns within quarters as opposed to years other advantages of rpa include reduced training costs minimal utilization of it resources and easier software migration today many domains and industries like banking and finance i.t integration processes human resources insurance agencies marketing and sales and customer relationship management readily deploy rpa rpa service adoption has been showing tremendous growth since 2016 and will continue to increase beyond 2020. according to mckinsey's research knowledge and work automation could have an economic impact of five to seven trillion dollars by the year 2025 it will impact more than 230 million knowledge workers which constitute nine percent of the global workforce any company which is labor intensive where people are performing high volume high transaction functions stand to benefit the most with rpa adoption boosting their capabilities and saving money and time now in today's video we're going to be learning all about robotic process automation so if you're new to this topic then this session will definitely help you understand rpa better so without further ado let's jump in and look at what's in store for us so the topics we're going to be covering in this session are why rpa automation versus rpa what is rpa what is not rpa features benefits types some of our pa software tools its services some of the industries adopting rpa and its growth projections so let's begin by understanding the necessity of rpa now imagine having to solve complex mathematical problems manually it's possible but not all that easy to make life a little easier calculators were invented they proved to be accurate easy and time saving however these conventional calculators need human input now this is partial automation so does a calculator qualify to fall under the rpa framework well no robotic process automation on the other hand would be completely automating the working of a calculator where it requires zero human interaction now let's compare traditional automation with rpa consider an invoice processing software now this software would automatically generate these invoices in a strategic manner however the processing requires human interaction on the other hand to ensure complete end-to-end automation rpa plays the key role rpa is an approach that allows one to automate the manual interactions in a known process traditional automation involves programming apis and integration tools to integrate different systems rp on the other hand mimics the actions of a user at the user interface level these actions could be mouse clicks or keystrokes since the developer directly interacts with the software he must have a clear understanding of the target system in case of automation but that's not the case in rpa as long as the bot can exactly follow the steps the developer need not worry about the underlying complexities so let's move ahead and understand what is rpa rpa is the use of software with ai and machine learning capabilities now these softwares handle high volume repeated tasks that previously required humans to perform now rpa approach sticks to the front end only making it easier for its users so rpa basically is a configuration that automates repetitive tasks some of these tasks could be answering queries making calculations maintaining records or even handling transactions to give you an example consider an employee handling invoices in a company now his duty would include printing these invoices for audit purposes now doing this regularly proves to be strenuous and monotonous rpa helps overcome this it can be used to open the invoice mail from the supplier extract the invoice and print it for records all of which requires zero effort from the employee now i'm sure you'll understand rpa better with a small demonstration now consider you have to display a welcome message on a regular basis now instead of manually typing it every time you definitely want to automate it for this purpose we make use of an rpa tool called ui paths now don't worry we'll learn about this later in the session ui path studio is a tool used to develop rpa bots for specific functions now let me navigate to my ui path studio and here i'll create a new project let me call it message 101 and i'll say create all right so this is how the ui path studio looks let me get rid of this and here you have various activities that you can perform so a sequence is basically a set of activities that is defined in a particular order it also executes in that particular order so what i can do is i can drag and drop this here and within the sequence i drag and drop my activity so i want to display a message so i drag the message box and drop it here the message that i want to display must be quoted within double quotes so i say hello welcome to rpa tutorial and i save it and after that i run it so once i do that it has to display the message on my screen so let's see if it does that voila here we go you can see the message being displayed so this was a simple example of how rpa works using this tool you can practically automate complex functionalities we learn all about ui path in detail in the upcoming videos so stay tuned for that moving ahead let's see some of the common misconceptions about rpa rpa is not a humanoid robot certain dynamic applications and processes that require human actions cannot be completely automated rpa can also not replace humans it can only be used for known processes it doesn't have a brain of its own and cannot perform human-like activities and lastly it cannot replicate human cognitive functions it definitely lacks logical thinking and does not possess decision making skills let's look at some of the key features of rpa a rich analytical suite now most enterprise level rpa monitors and manages automated functions from a central console now this console can be accessed from anywhere and offers basic metrics on robots servers workflows etc now this solution of rpa requires no integration since everything is inbuilt creation of bots now rpa tools allow quick creation of bots by capturing mouse clicks and keystrokes with built-in screen recorder components now many rpa products include the option to create and edit bots manually with the help of a task editor scriptless automation now rpa tools are code free and can automate applications in any department employees with less programming skills can create bots through gui's or graphical user interface now this feature reduces the amount of hand code writing and improves the rate of delivery next up we have security rpa tools enable the configuration as well as customization of encryption methods now this helps defend against any interruption in the network hosting and deployment rba systems can automatically deploy bots in groups of hundreds hence rpa bots can be installed on desktops and deployed on servers to access data for repetitive tasks lastly we have debugging some rpa tools require to stop running to rectify the errors while other tools allow dynamic interaction while debugging now this dynamic approach allows to develop on the go and to resolve issues in a runtime environment without changing the process now let's look at some of the benefits of rpa reduces cost one of the most important advantages of rpa is the quick reduction in cost by automating tasks the cost saving of almost 30 percent can be achieved software robots also cost way less than a full-time employee reduces operational risk various companies generally prefer to outsource busy work to external parties now this comes with an inherent risk of human errors and inefficiency rpa brings forth a better solution and since the work stays in-house there is less operational risk quality and accuracy rpa offers services to processes with high probability of human errors thereby increasing accuracy robots are reliable and consistent and don't complain when expected to work tirelessly scalability with the help of rpa companies can make adjustments based on seasonality and can easily scale up or down operations as needed moving on let's learn about the types of rpa first up we have unattended or autonomous rpa now these are ideally used for reducing work like completing data processing tasks in the background now these bots can be generally launched at specific intervals or they can be bought initiated or they can be initiated when there's a data input second up we have attended rpa now these bots live on the user's machines and are triggered by the user so some sort of human interaction is required they're usually launched when they're embedded on the employee's device or they can be ordered and based on conditions or they can be initiated with the help of an rpa client tool thirdly we have hybrid rpa as the name suggests it's a combination of attended and unattended rpa these bots address front and back office tasks in the enterprise next up we have rpa software tools now robotic process tools are used for the automation of repetitive back office processes now there are numerous rpa tools available in the market some of them are automation anywhere uipath blue prism pega and work fusion among others in the upcoming videos we'll discuss some of these tools in detail watch out for that moving on let's look at some of the rpa services now these rpa services generally include common business processes like opening emails and attachments filling in forms and moving folders follow if then rules connect to system apis extract structured data from documents make complex calculations monitor manual processes and learn how to perform them example machine learning copy and paste read and write to databases scrap data from documents login to web or enterprise applications and so on now that we have a clear idea on what rpa is let's go ahead and look at some of the industries adopting rpa first up we have banking and finance rpa has been a boon to the finance industry with its significant impact on reducing considerable work volumes human resources typically with hr processes witnessing a high volume of repetitive tasks the rpa could significantly improve the rate efficiency and cost effectiveness in the functions it can be used to run tasks in careers and learning talent acquisition etc marketing and sales rpa is helping organizations in building the sales pipeline and engaging with their customers more efficiently i.t integration processes rpa can be used to integrate legacy and newer systems in automation endeavors insurance agencies rpa helps empowered insurers in building a high growth responsive business while optimizing cost lastly we have customer relationship management rpa software can automatically keep your crm maintained with the most up-to-date and accurate information lastly let's look at the rpa growth projections and its future both rpa software and services increased by huge amounts between 2016 and 2021 and beyond according to mckinsey research knowledge and work automation could have an economic impact of five to seven trillion dollars by the year 2025. it will touch more than 230 million knowledge workers which is almost nine percent of the global workforce any company which is labor intensive where people are performing high volume high transaction functions will boost their capabilities and save money and time with rpa so why is rpa gaining popularity so rapidly and why do companies and techies have rpa perspectives so here are the 10 reasons why one should learn rpa so number 10 fast implementation now getting data entry bots up and running goes quickly implementing a new rpa software system certainly happens much faster than training a new person you can have these data entry bots up and running in just days in contrast if you wanted to hire a new human employee you'd be taking a lot of time in sorting out resumes conducting interviews going through the entire boring hiring process and then finally when you find the right person you'd have to spend time and energy on training them however in case of rpa all of this is countered and number nine we have no training time so now this is an important one if your process changes and the bots need to learn something new you can either replace them with new bots or alter their programming now that again goes much faster than training employees for new tasks in terms of costs training an employee for a new task will pan out to be way more expensive and time consuming next up the bots will never quit now with rpa you don't have to worry about employees quitting or dealing with the turnover bots don't care how hard they're working or how boring their job is or how repeatedly they're doing the same tasks again yes it would be ironic if the bots got tired software bots can work all the time 24 hours a day every single day of the year at 100 capacity now rpa doesn't take holidays it doesn't have sick needs and of course they do not have unproductive days at all well isn't that a treat to have someone who never retires or decides it's time to move to a different job next up minimal i.t resources maintaining software bots requires minimal id resources in some cases it doesn't id doesn't need to get involved at all your rpa systems will be managed by the software provider they're responsible for maintenance and updates all of that it completely takes the burden off it and saves your company a whole lot of money roi is visible now every organization wants to quantify their gains many of these organizations do not know how they should determine their roi but when it comes to adopting robotic process automation roi is visible it defines a clearer path to demonstrate its returns complex problems can be solved now as our data sources and analytical capabilities have grown so has the time required to build various reports robotic process automation system is ideal for solution to solve these types of problems the system stores the information and it can also remember and transform this information very easily that means this makes you auditable and tax ready software migration now it's a fact that software migrations are time consuming and costly migrating to a new software could take months and cost could turn out to be tens or thousands of millions of dollars what's even more frustrating is that at all times certain features and functionalities which may have functioned in a particular way in a previous version may not even be present in the updated version so rpa helps with data migration with accuracy speed and continuous updating of software rpa has a free tier many rpa vendors offer free tiers some of these vendors are blue prism automation anywhere ui path among others these rpa software vendors are offering high rpa software notably ui path with their community edition and workfusion with their rpa express this helps lower the total cost of ownership there's no rip and replace now rpa doesn't jeopardize an employee's job but helps with the growth of new jobs to do your work you need some additional software yes and virtual machines to deploy fully independent digital bots but you may not need to rip and replace your existing infrastructures also there's a common misconception that rpa could steal our jobs well that's not true monitoring and controlling these bots are completely the responsibilities of the developer as a result rpa does not pull down your existing systems but it leverages them lastly popularity and high salary according to glassdoor the average salary of an rpa developer in the us is 77 000 us dollars and in india the beginning salary for an rpa developer is around 4.65 lakhs per annum top tier companies like dell ibm accenture capgemini cognizant among others are readily hiring rpa developers now this is all you need to know about why one should learn rpa but if you're looking to become a developer let's look at some of the job roles and responsibilities rpa developers are responsible for the creation design development and implementation of rpa systems an rpa developer is expected to provide guidance with process design design develop test automation flip workflows deploy rpa components be it bots robots or development tools support the implementation of rpa solutions create process documentation and also assure the quality of the automation now that we have a clear understanding of what rpa is and what it's not you must be wondering how it works so let's have a closer look at its working the first step towards any approach is planning in this stage the processes to be automated are defined which includes identifying the test objects finalizing an implementation approach and defining a clear roadmap for the rpa implementation next we have design and development as the name suggests in this phase you start developing the automation workflows as per the agreed plan third is deployment and testing this phase typically includes the execution of the bots now any expected outages are to be taken care of during the deployment to ensure accurate functioning testing of these bots for bugs and errors is crucial lastly is support and maintenance now providing constant support helps in identifying and rectifying the errors better moving on we have rpa software tools now these tools typically help develop and execute bots some of the rpa tools are uipath blue prism automation anywhere work fusion among others in this tutorial we will execute a bot using the uipath tool before executing a demo test case let's go ahead and understand what ui path is and its interface uipath is basically an advanced rpa tool which allows you to create control and execute front office and back office bots with the help of visual templates and diagrams now it also provides end-to-end automation calling it hyper automation uipath offers three different product suites first up we have ui path studio now it is a platform to create automation bots it encompasses hundreds of activity templates and ready made components to drag and drop now some of its features include gui dashboard which basically consists of activities like send email display message and so on it offers different types of recorders to record user actions on multiple platforms it provides logging and exceptional handling it also has reusable components now the user can create these reusable components to publish them together as libraries the next product suite is uipath robot now they run automation bots that are created using uipath studio there are different types of robots firstly we have the attended robots now these robots work with you to speed up the service desk and the help desk it's basically used in activities where human involvement is key next up we have unattended robots now they operate without the human touch maximizing the cost and performance benefits for any variety of back office tasks the third product suite is the orchestrator now it is a centralized robot management dashboard where you can easily deploy secure and manage your ui path robots at scale now here's the course of action the first step is that the user creates a bot next the user has to save this project and which is later used as a process now once the process is created it is assigned to a specific robot to execute it this collectively constitutes a job and all of which is taken care of by the uipath orchestrator now let's understand the uipath interface in brief first up we have the recorder now as the name suggests this component allows the user to record all user actions such as navigations clicks etc next up is scraping now it involves two components one is the screen scraping which is the programmatic collection of visual data and the other one is data scraping which is the extraction of structured data from an application user events now all mouse clicks and key strokes given by the user as input are recorded using this feature lastly we have variables now variables are used primarily for using certain features now these variables hold different types of data and can change over time all right now that we have a fair understanding of ui path let's go ahead and execute a simple test case so here's what we're going to be doing first we extract information about books on the website that is goodreads.com so what information are we extracting so we're going to be extracting the names and the authors of the new released books then this information is going to be stored in an excel sheet and this excel sheet is going to be sent over an email so let's go ahead and execute the test case all right so let's go ahead and open ui path studio and here you go and click on new process in the top right corner all right and provide a name for it say rpa and i say create so now this is going to create a workspace for you this might take up a few seconds and this is what the typical uipath studio interface looks like so moving ahead we need to create a sequence of activities so for that let's go ahead and say new sequence to the top left corner and provide a name for it i choose to keep it sequence so i say create but what exactly is a sequence now sequence is a set of activities so all the activities mentioned in a sequence are executed in the same order all right so now in our use case we are going to be scraping data from the goodreads.com website right okay so now we'll have to navigate to the goodreads.com website and i've opened it in my browser so here we navigated to the most popular books published in march 2020. so now i have to extract data from this right i need two fields basically i need the name of the book and the author all right so what we're going to do is we go back to uipath studio and click on data scraping so go ahead and click on data scraping and here it says open your browser or application and wherever you want to extract your data from and then we click on next and then click on the field that you want to select so i say next and here i want just the name right so i click on the name and it says you selected an entire table cell would you like to extract the data from the whole table no i just want the name of the table right so i say no and now the next thing you need to do is you have to create a pattern the tool needs to understand what exactly you are extracting so what we do is we have to create a pattern to do that we have to select a second element so i say next again and i click on the second name here i say click and now the name of the column that i want to give so i say books and i say next now so this is how it's going to look this is the data preview right so next we need the name of the author so i say extract correlated data here so go ahead and click on that and now i need the name so i say i click on sarah j maas and again to create a pattern i need to select another element so i say next and click on the next name of the author so i click on this and i give the name author for this column all right so i click on next okay so this is how it's going to look so after this i say finish all right so now it's going to ask me if data is spanning across multiple pages now in our case if you look at this page data is not spanning across multiple pages say suppose you had one two three four five saying there are more books ahead then that would be data spanning across multiple pages so that is not the case here so i say no in our case and that is it so we have scraped our data from the website okay so now that we're done with data scraping the information that has been extracted has to be saved in a csv file so for that you have to create the file so go to your activities and say write csv all right so just drag and drop the activity here now it asks for two fields right so the first one is a target field where the information is stored so provide a name for it for that let's go ahead and browse it and in my case i create a document say demo one underscore rpa and save it all right and the next field is the write from field now the information that you're storing in the csv file is basically the output of data scraping so that is all the information from the data scripting event is stored in an output variable so click on that and here you see you have an output variable so copy the output variable control c and then paste it here order now save the file and now let's execute it to see if it successfully works so go ahead and click on play so all right it's completed the execution so let's go ahead and check if it has completed the execution correctly so i go back to my documents ui path and we have demo one underscore rpa open that and here we go we have the name of the author and the book all right so this works completely fine okay so the next step in our use case is to attach the csv file and send over an email now for that you have to provide your credentials that is your email id and the password now these credentials are also used multiple times across the test case so instead of specifying it every time we can create two variables right one for the email id and one for the password so for that click on variables here and say create variable and okay we have one already here so let's call it email and the other one is called password so go ahead and provide your credentials so i provide my email id and then my password okay and then save it all right now we have to attach this csv file and send over an email right for that we have an activity called send smtp mail message so go ahead and drag and drop it here and now it has three fields it has the two field the subject field and the body field right so two is where you provide the email id so here i just say email because i've already defined a variable the next is the subject so i say attachment and say the body i'll keep it simple and say pfa okay now we have to attach the file right so click on attach files and here we have to provide the path to the file so go back to the place where you've saved your csv file and copy the path and paste it here as an expression and at the end you provide the name of the file so it was demo one underscore rpa dot csv okay so now go ahead click on ok now we have a lot of other fields to provide here as well so here we have the port field now the smtp port that we're using is number 465 so go ahead and provide that and the server is basically smtp.gmail.com all right and again we have to provide the email ids that is just email and this is just password and then two is also provided already and the sender is again me so i say email again and the password is again password all right so now save it okay and as you can see there are no errors that means it's good to go okay so let's go ahead and execute this and see if it executes successfully so go ahead and execute it all right so it has successfully finished its execution so now let's go to my gmail account and see if i've received an email and yes i have so go ahead and click on that and here i download the file and see if it's appropriately sent and here we go so here we go we have the name of the book and the author okay so with this we've successfully implemented an rpa bot for email automation hey everyone welcome to this session by simply learn in this video we will learn about ui path studio in depth and understand it's working with a demo this tutorial will help you understand the following concepts you will learn what is ui path and the various advantages of uipath then you will look at the different products offered by uipath and understand the uipath interface after that you will see the companies using uipath and look at a demo to automate a task using uipath studio so without further ado let's begin so what is ui path now rpa is a technology with which human tasks can be automated to facilitate this a tool is required uipath is one such tool among others that are used to create bots with the help of visual processes and diagrams it provides complete end-to-end automation calling it hyper automation ui path was founded by daniel dynes and marius turca in 2005. uipath is specially used for windows process automation it automates repetitive tasks and lastly uipath offers drag and drop functionalities to make it easy to use now since there are so many other tools like blue prism automation anywhere in the market what makes ui path stand out so let's look at the advantages of uipath first uipath has an activity library this library has several built-in activities and features like display message input box and so on this improves the customer experience we will deal with these activities in the demo later next up is security rpa deals with a variety of information like credit card numbers financial information and passwords uipath offers extensive security since all the information can be encrypted and stored on a centralized server up next we have recorders so ui path uses a micro recorder to record the user actions such as mouse clicks and keystrokes once the actions are recorded they can be emulated using emulators for quick automation third party integration ui path can be integrated with third party plugins like ibm watson and google plugins then we have powerful debugging ui path studio comes with a debug component that helps find and locate problems easily in complex workflows this is useful for viewing the execution of each activity to verify what data it gets and if there are errors in producing outputs now let's understand the various ui path products first up is uipath studio this is the platform to create the bots this product consists of all the necessary drag and drop activities and a robust ui to help develop bots of your choice now the ui part studio consists of the gui dashboard it offers a visual dashboard with activities like send email display message and so on then we have types of recorders uipath studio offers various types of recorders to record actions on multiple platforms then we have logging and exception handling it offers various options for debugging and exception handling such as debug open logs slow step etc and finally we have reusable components the user can create reusable components to publish them together as libraries next we have the uipath robots all the automation tasks that created are run by uipath robots there are two types of robots attended robots and unattended robots attended robots work with you to speed up service desk and help desk it is used in activities where human involvement is the key unattended robots operate without human touch maximizing cost and performance benefits for any variety of back office tasks lastly we have the uipath orchestrator the orchestrator is like a centralized entity where you can deploy secure manage all your automation tasks here are the steps involved first you create a bot now you create a project and publish it as a process for further use once a process is created it is assigned to a specific robot to execute in an environment this collectively constitutes a job now let's move on to the architecture of uipath so on the top you have the client layer consisting of uipath studio and the uipath robot now the uipath robot has two parts one is the uipath agent service which displays all the available jobs in the system tree and the other one is the uipath executor service which is used to run the jobs in one windows session the server layer receives the robot once it is ready for execution with the help of the orchestrator you can run the project on different pcs the orchestrator monitors the deploys configures queue management and logging lastly we have the persistent layer which consists of the databases it takes care of the queues and holds information about the robot configuration and the assigned processes now that we know what ui path is let's acquaint ourselves with its user interface and understand its components better so this is what the typical interface looks like first we have the ribbon it consists of three tabs home design and debug home is where you start a new project from pre-defined templates or open a project you recently worked on by default the projects are created in the location shown below next is the design tab design tab adds sequences flowcharts and state machines to your project it installs and manages activity packages it builds interactions with ui elements and then publishes your work to orchestrator finally is debug it debugs your workflow while using debugging tools to set up breakpoints monitor the execution of activity step by step and adjust the debugging speed next on the screen is tools so the tools tab can be used for installing extensions from chrome firefox edge java silverlight citrix and windows remote desktop and is also used for launching the ui explorer and project dependencies mass update tool then we have settings the settings tab has options for changing the interface language theme setting global preferences and managing activity feeds so you have general settings then there is settings for design locations managed resources and finally license and profile up next you have help the help tab directs you to product documentation release notes online resources the community forum and the rpa academy after that you have the recorder the recorder component in uipath studio allows the user to record ui mouse movements and keyboard activities to generate automation scripts after that you have scraping so uipath studio supports two types of scraping one is screen scraping and the next one is data scraping so screen scraping is programmatic collection of visual data and data scraping is the extraction of structured data from an application then you have user events user events records events such as mouse clicks and keystrokes then you have variables so variables hold different types of data these variables can change over time uipath makes an easy provision to create and remove unused variables on the bottom left you have project so the project panel enables you to view the components of the current project add folders open the file location manage dependencies and adjust project settings beside it you have activities panel so the activities panel shows available activities that can be added to the current workflow users can use the search box to find activities navigate through them using navigation keys and press you also have the snippets panel which enables you to easily reuse automation it includes by default multiple samples and snippets to the bottom right you have the properties panel which is contextual and enables you to view and change the properties of a selected activity you also have the outline panel which displays the project hierarchy all available variables and nodes you can highlight activities in this panel by selecting them in the designer panel the output panel enables you to display the output of the log message or write line activities among other things exceptions for packages are also displayed in this panel so now that you have understood the interface of uipath let's look at the companies using uipath so you have accenture capgemini cognizant ethos and deloitte to name a few now we'll do a demo to automate a task using uipath studio so here is what we are going to do in the demo we will create an automated process to fetch data from a website wherein the bot would extract data like the name of the person the phone number and the email id this data will store it in an excel seat and send it over an email now let's get started now to do this demo we'll be using the fake name generator website to generate random data of people and store this data set in an excel sheet now if i had to do this manually i would first create an excel sheet so let me open an excel workbook i'll create a blank workbook so this is where i'll put my data if i had to do it manually so now let me take you to the fake name generator website so i'll search for fakenamegenerator.com so this is the website where you can generate fake names now if i had to store this data in excel i would manually copy paste each and every detail and paste it onto the excel sheet so for that first i had to create columns like name then phone number this in an email after that i had to come back to this and copy each of these fields so name if i had to take the phone number so i would copy this and similarly for the email address as well for one record it is fine what if you are asked to fetch 100 records or say 200 records then this method is not at all feasible it is time consuming and inefficient you need to find a way where you can automate this task of fetching records uipath is a solution for this so let's see how we can automate this task using the uipath studio so i'll click on open main workflow first we need to direct uipath to go to the fake name generator website for that we need the sequence activity so let me search for sequence here so under activities i'll search for sequence and i'll drag it here after that i need to open the website in a web browser so for that let me search for another activity called open browser so under activity i look for open browser so i'll drag it on the sequence itself now it is asking you to insert the url of the website and it must be within double quotes so i will go to my website copy paste the url i have to give this url within double quotes then i'll paste it now we need to select the name of the browser where you want to open this website so under input and browser type i'll choose chrome now let me go ahead and run this file so under debug i have run file i'll click on it so as you can see the website is automatically opened in a new window on chrome i'll close this the next step in the process is to tell the program how many records we want to fetch from the website for this we will create an input dialog box so under activities i'll search for input so here you get the input dialog box i'll drag and drop it on the top now it is asking us to give the details so i'll put it within double quotes say enter the details of customers or say people and then here i'll give enter the number of records you want to fetch now now i have to store this information in a variable so under variables i'll create a variable and name it as total is the total number of records i want to fetch similarly under output result i will give the same variable name as total now we need to fetch the details a number of times repeatedly say for 10 times or 20 times or 50 times to do this operation i'll be using a do while loop so to use a do while loop i'll first search for do while and i'll drop it to the do section of the sequence as you can see do-while has two components one is the body and the other one is condition the body has the things that you want the program to do the condition is where you evaluate certain conditions every time when the program has to do a task so for every step or iteration it will check if the condition is true or not and go inside the body of the loop now for doing this we need to assign a variable so let's name the variable as val and i'll change the variable type to integer and i'll make the scope to sequence i'll also assign a default value of 0. now we'll compare this val to the variable total so the condition i'll give is check if val is less than total so under condition i'll give val less than total so every time the value of val is less than the total it will keep fetching the records from the website you can see it has thrown some error now this is because our total variable is of type string while the val variable is of type integer so you can't compare an integer with a string variable so that would be absurd we need to convert the total variable to an integer using the c and function so here itself i'll write c int which is convert this total variable to integer you can see the error is gone the next thing i want to do is if the value of the valve variable is less than total i'll increment the value of val to 1. so to do that i'll use an activity called assign so i'll check for assign and i'll drag it onto the body so here i'll give val equals to val plus one this will make sure the value of val increases by 1 every time there is a new record inserted it will continue until the value of val no longer matches the total so the next job is to extract information from the website to do this we will use the get full text activity so i'll search for get full text here and i'll drag it right below the assign activity now you need to select the information which you want so first i want to get the name i'll click on the indicate element inside browser and then select the name of the person so i'll click on this and i click on the name there you go now we need to store this name in a variable so i'll create a variable so under variable i'll create a variable called name and in the output also i'll give the same variable name next i want to fetch the phone number of the person so i'll again select get full text and i'll drag it here i'll click on indicate element inside browser so i'll scroll down and i'll select the phone number of the person so we have selected the phone number similarly i'll store this phone number in a variable i'll create a variable called phone underscore number and the output text box also will give the same variable as phone underscore number after that i want to get the email address of the person so i'll continue with the same drill i'll select the activity once again which is get full text and i'll drag it right here i'll click on indicate element inside browser and now we'll select the email address which is this one similarly i'll store the email address in a variable called email underscore id and in the output also we'll give the same variable name which is email underscore id now we need to store the names phone numbers and email ids into an excel sheet for that we need to create a data table so i'll search for data table under activities let me go ahead and do that so i'll choose build data table and drag it right below the input dialog box now this table has to be assigned to a variable so let me do that let me give a variable name as fetch underscore data underscore table similarly the output also will give the same variable name which is fetch underscore data underscore table one thing i need to tell you here is we change the variable type so i'll select browse for types and look for data table which is system.data i'll drill down and search for data table which is this one click ok we need to assign the column names to this data table so let me now do that i'll uncheck all this and select the columns so you will give the first column name as name itself click on ok select one more column give it as phone number click ok and then we need the email address i'll hit ok so we are done so first the data table is created and then we'll write this data to an excel file after that we need to create rows for the data table for that i will search for row under activities i'll search for row and i'll select add row i'll select add data row i'll place it right below where we have created all the variables now i want to add a row for the name phone number and email address so under input i'll select array row i'll expand this and within curly braces i'll give my variable names so those would be name give a comma and then phone underscore number comma email underscore id click ok i made a mistake it should be within curly braces okay now to tell the table to which it should write the rows to we need to assign under the data table name so under data table i'll give fetch underscore data underscore table for every iteration a record will be added to the table then we need to refresh the page to extract the next set of information so for that i will add another activity called click and drop it right below the add data row so under activities i'll search for click and i'll select mouse click and i'll drop it right below this one now we need to indicate where do we want to click from the browser so click on this go on top and select generate so we want to click on generate next i will write the data to a csv file so i'll search for write csv under activities and i'll drop it towards the end of the sequence right here now you need to give the location where you want to place this file on your system and give the source from where it will take the information so let's give the location where you want to place this file i'll place it on my desktop itself i'll name this as fetch save it and for the source i'll give patch underscore data underscore table we are all set now let's run it so under debug file i'll select run file i'll enter the number of records so let me fetch 10 records click on ok now this might take some time i believe it has run successfully now let me check for my csv file that should ideally be on my desktop there you go so we have the csv file let me open it you can see it has extracted 10 rows of data and three columns namely name of the person the phone number and the email address so we are done with the first task of automatically generating data from a website the next task is to send this file over email now to send an email you need the smtp activity so under activities i'll search for smtp i'll drag it right below here now we need to configure this i'll be actually sending this email from someone else's email id to my email id so under 2 i'll give my email address which is within quotes i'll type abhijit dot biswalat simplylearn.net i'll give a subject as automatic data extraction under body i'll give something like hi please find a test now we have to attach the file we have to give the location of the file here so let me go to properties and i'll select this cancel paste this here followed by the file name which is fetch dot csv i'll click on ok after that i have to give the host port number which is 465 and the and the server name which is smtp under log on i'll give the sender's email id i have to give the password as well under the receiver it's my email id which is rbg.bushwa simplyloan.net for the sender i'll give the email ids in my dot this panda at simplylearn.net and i'll give a dummy name my so we are almost done let me now go to debug file and run this it is asking to enter the number of records i will give 5 click on ok this will take some time so let's just wait so we have successfully run our program now let me check my inbox if i have got any mail from chinmay so there you go i've got this email and below you can see the fetch.csv file attached and it has five rows now assuming you have a basic understanding of rpa let's go on and compare the popularly used tools first up is trial version every tool generally offers a trial version for its users to get acquainted with the tool this helps the users understand the tool better and decide if they want to proceed with using the tool blue prism offers a free trial version it's available in two options either on the cloud or on the local computer uipath also offers a free edition both trial and license versions are available automation anywhere offers a free community version and both tried and licensed versions are available next up is base technologies base technologies define the technology with which the software was built blue prism is based on c sharp uipath is based on microsoft vendors like sharepoint kibana and elastic search while automation anywhere is based on modern java technologies the third feature of comparison is process designer blue prism enables you to create design edit as well as test business processes from the visual business object now a vbo is like an adapter provided by blue prism for communicating with an application each visual business object implements a specific set of operations on an application's user interface so these are basically like objects that encapsulate a particular functional logic uipath on the other hand acts as a visual process designer with developer friendly options now a visual process designer is a dashboard consisting of various tools through which the developer can define the automation tasks automation anywhere is developer friendly with a visual interface built for business users along with advanced features for developers business users and developers can work side by side to build bots they can see the visual interface and code in a single screen the next feature of comparison is accessibility blue prism offers browser-based access only ui path and automation anywhere on the contrary offer both application based and browser-based accessibility in case of automation anywhere the control room can be accessed with a browser or a mobile application this is the only platform where users can create bots on any device or any operating system moving on to the next feature learning now in case of blue prism the user should have the necessary knowledge of programming he should be able to create business objects and manage them in the control center ui path enables you to design automation processes visually through diagrams the developer need not know a programming language in particular when it comes to automation anywhere it is developer friendly and offers both visual and programming features business users can build bots with the help of drag and drop features beginners benefit from the built-in product walkthrough next up is robots now before we jump in let's discuss what the different types of bots are there are two types of boards we have the front office boards whose deployment is in the user's control we also have back office bots that can run on locked machines from an orchestrator the user may not be actively involved in its working so moving on to the comparison blue prism offers back office automation only ui path and automation anywhere offer both front and back office automation in case of automation anywhere the hbc or the human bot collaboration feature enables humans and bots to work together to complete a task and also to manage exceptions and escalations moving on the next feature is macro recorder now the macro recorder allows you to record keyboard activities and mouse events to generate automation scripts these activities are arranged based on the order or sequence of actions being performed on the screen so moving on to the comparison blue prism does not use a macro recorder uipath makes use of a mac2 recorder to enable fast process mapping automation anywhere offers a universal recorder so that the user need not select different recorders for different tasks moving on to the next feature architecture and an application that runs on the client side and accesses the remote server for information uses a client server architecture whereas an application that runs entirely on a web browser uses the web architecture in case of a client server architecture the user interaction with the server is always through a user interface or application on the client side on the other hand in a web application the user interaction is thoroughly through a web browser now blue prism and uipath both incorporate a client server architecture automation anywhere incorporates a cloud-native web-based microservices architecture it is the only platform that provides a complete digital worker solution on the web users with any skill level can instantly start building robots on a browser without any heavy installation the next feature is accuracy blue prism is accurate for desktop web and citrix automation ui path shines in citrix automation designed for bpo automation and automation anywhere shines in citrix automation with ai sense technology well any automation solution built using a virtual desktop or built to work in virtual desktops is called citrix automation moving on to the next feature reusability blue prism consists of a library of business objects that can be reused across multiple methods it also offers high reliability in the case of uipath the processes can be used for various synthesis services with several workflow modules as a result uipath offers a high degree of usability and moderate reliability in the case of automation anywhere apart from the standard common library users can develop custom actions upload and manage packages in their enterprise control room every bot created in automation anywhere is reusable the bot store has hundreds of pre-configured bots and digital workers to kick start a user's rpa journey next up is pricing blue prism has a high cost of acquisition it also offers restricted training uipath offers effective pleasant entry level pricing automation anywhere offers attractive entry-level pricing its users also experience the lowest total cost of ownership because of its native capabilities and web-based architecture moving on to the last feature certifications blue prism offers several certifications like blue prism professional developer blue prism rom architect among others uipath provides free online training and certification programs like rpa developer advanced certification automation anywhere university offers free online training and certification programs for both students and advanced practitioners professionals can also avail job role specific certifications there are several rpa tools in the market today however blue prism automation anywhere and uipath are leading the market first let's understand who an rpa developer is now generally speaking an rpa developer is someone who works cross-functionally with business operations and business analysts to create and optimize workflow processes now however this is a relatively new career path and many organizations formal titles for rpa developers differ now other similar positions may use titles like process designer or automation architect but no matter the title the role of a successful rpa developer requires specific skills and best practices like documentation and planning now in order to automate a business process an rpa developer will be required to create workflow diagrams and strategically document the process prior to implementation now he may also be responsible for testing and bug fixes so coding skills are also important now in order to become a successful rpa developer you must have the ability to navigate through appropriate technologies such as uipath or automation anywhere however there are a few prerequisites to become an rpa developer well it's not very hard but a little prep is necessary so let's go through them one by one first up is strategic planning now planning is a critical phase in any development life cycle the rpa developer regardless of the designation should possess the aptitude to ensure strategic planning strategic planning basically includes design development and implementation of rpa systems this also helps streamline the entire business to optimize the efficiency next up is analytical skills now again as the name suggests it's crucial to analyze the information and make decisions to maximize your efficiency right now these are skills that one develops when they're exposed to it so over a period of time you're going to develop these skills not to worry about it now next up is problem solving skills now these skills are again crucial to predict any potential outages and equip the entire unit to overcome any unforeseen interruptions from the business perspective as well problem solving skills play a significant role in ensuring smooth conduction of tasks experience in programming languages like say c plus plus c python ruby java is also crucial next up is hands-on experience on rpe tools and cognitive platforms like blue prism automation anywhere redwood openspan etc now other general skills include communication skills as well now this is pivotal for any organization now the developer should be outspoken and should articulate new ideas now that you're familiar with the skills required let's look at the job description for an rpa developer and some of his responsibilities so here's a screenshot of the job advertisement posted by ibm as mentioned some of the responsibilities include crafting automation process solutions coding and scripting in any of the automation tools configuring new automation using core automation tools communicating with business analysts and clients building and documenting test procedures supporting the operational teams during any rollout phases supporting existing processes and implementing change requirements and successfully managing any sort of issues so if you're aspiring to become an rpa developer then these are some of the job responsibilities that you will have to readily take up if you're still wondering if this field has scope for development in the coming years let me clarify it for you so let's go ahead and look at the rpa growth projections and salary according to gartner robotic process automation software grew up by 63 in 2018 making it the fastest growing segment of the global enterprise software market now the growth curve has also been steadily increasing since 2016 and continues beyond 2020. now it is also predicted that rpa will touch more than 230 million knowledge workers which constitute up to say nine percent of the global workforce now any company which is labor intensive where people are performing high volume high transaction functions can totally benefit from rpa so if you're still skeptical about picking up rta i hope this clarified it for you so moving on to salaries in the u.s the average sanity of an rpa developer is around 76 000 us dollars the average site of an rpa developer in india is around 6 lakh rupees per annum so the companies that are already hiring for rpa developers are ibm capgemini emphasis volvo and accenture among others moving on here are a few tips to kick start your rpa career so let's go ahead and look at them one by one first up is to choose your rpa platforms now all rpa tools have graphical user interface or guis but it's really helpful to understand the underlying technology now this comes in extremely handy when the developer has to create more complex c personalized or advanced bots so if you are a python developer then you can start off by working with argos labs so this allows the developers to build plugins with almost no effort from the existing python code so if you're a python developer then you can start off by working with argos labs now this really allows developers to build plugins with literally no effort and if you're a dot net developer then you can start off with uipath or automation anywhere's community editions so if you're a java developer then you can start off with automation anywhere and if you're a developer with no experience then you can begin with any of the leading rpa providers now tip number two is to start building there are plenty of free materials and guides to help you begin your rpa journey so some of the famous or well-known rpa tools are blue prism work fusion ui path automation anywhere etc so just start working on them tip number three is build your github repository no matter how small or simple you think your project is go ahead and put it on your github repository this totally adds credibility to your profile even if you're attending interviews one look at your github repository is going to make them realize how good of a developer you are tip number four is to take up freelancing projects now again to start off you can take up say non-paid or even low paid projects some of the websites that you could look up are upwork freelancer troll answer people per hour so tip number five is to start a blog now having your own blog will add credibility to your profile no matter how less you've worked on any projects you can go ahead and type in all the information you want recruiters can also have a glance at your profile you're definitely going to get some extra points for this tip number six is to ensure you update your resume and profile now keep your resume and profiles updated on all job portals like linkedin indeed simply hired and so these were some simple tips to help you become an rpa developer now that we've established that rpa has a steep growth curve let's look at the rpa job roles that you should look out for we have the rpa developer senior rpa developer rpa process architect rpa developer senior consultant project manager lead developer business analyst and rpa data analyst now these job roles come with specific responsibilities depending on the designation however there are a few common responsibilities of an rpa developer let's go ahead and check them out now the first one is strategic planning skills now planning is a crucial phase in any development life cycle the rpa developer regardless of the designation should possess the aptitude to ensure strategic planning planning includes the design development and implementation of rpa systems this also helps streamline the business next up is strong analytical skills now to understand the client's requirements and cater to the needs accordingly is crucial analytical skills are also important to predict or identify potential bugs and errors and rectify them now this scale is especially required if you're involved in the overall development next we have strong problem solving skills now this again is extremely crucial to predict any outages and equip the entire unit to overcome any unforcing interruptions from the business perspective as well problem solving skills play a significant role in ensuring smooth conduction of tasks experience in any programming language such as c c plus plus python ruby java or dot net is also important hands-on experience in rpa tools and cognitive platforms such as blue prism automation anywhere ui path open spam etc is necessary communication skills are pivotal for any organization the developer should be outspoken and articulate any new ideas you should also be confident to raise concerns and be as transparent as possible in the long run this only proves to be helpful to the organization lastly we have exposure to sql now experience with database be it sql or nosql is highly preferred it's always an added advantage if you have the knowledge about accessing and managing databases next up we have rpa developer salaries now the salaries will differ depending on the location your experience and also the designation now in the u.s here are the job salaries and the roles according to glassdoor an rpa developer in the u.s earns around 76 000 us dollars per year the nrp developer senior consultant earns around 99 000 us dollars per year an rpa process architect earns an average salary of 95 000 us dollars and a senior rpa developer earns an average salary of 92 000 us dollars an rpa project manager earns around 73 000 us dollars per annum an rpa lead developer earns an average salary of 99 000 us dollars per annum an rpa business analyst earns around 68 000 us dollars per annum and the data analyst earns around 62 000 us dollars per annum moving on to india the average salary of an rpa developer is around 5 lakhs 98 000 rupees that of a senior consultant a senior rpa developer and an rpa lead developer is around 14 lakhs per annum and the average salary of an rpa business analyst is around 5 lakhs 40 000 rupees now let me quickly run you through a sample resume of an rpa developer now this is just a template and you can alter it according to your needs first up is your general information like name phone number and your email id then you can give a quick description about yourself and your strengths you can also mention the objective as to why you're applying and what you're looking for in the organization you can include your linkedin profile link and your github link one look at your linkedin profile is enough for anybody to gather all the information necessary so make sure that it's updated moving on you could mention your experience now here you would have to mention the names of your previous organizations along with your designation and the tenure you could also include your key responsibilities in these organizations along with the responsibilities you could also mention the awards that you received in your organizations next up is your educational background you can mention the university that you graduated from and this require that you have a degree in computer science you can also go ahead and mention your gpa the next section is skills now this is pretty crucial in the technical skills section you could mention about different rpa tools that you've worked on if you're good at a particular programming language go ahead and mention that as well as mentioned earlier any experience in database management is an added advantage if you have any experience go ahead and mention that moving on to non-technical skills you could mention any extracurricular activities that you're proud of some soft skills that you feel worth mentioning can be added in this section mentioning the languages that you know can also boost your resume now given all this it's fundamental that you do not lie on your resume in today's video we're going to discuss the top rpa interview questions now if you're looking to make a career in this field and if you're just browsing around for jobs then you're in the right place this video will absolutely help you crack that next interview of yours so without further ado let's begin the first question is what is rpa now robotic process automation is the use of software with artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities to handle high volume repetitive tasks that previously required humans to perform now some of these tasks could be addressing queries making calculations maintenance of records or even performing transactions now rpa is a form of automation that basically sticks to the front end of the system and carries out tasks without having to move to the back end now this is an essential feature of rpa next up is mention a few applications of rpa there are several applications to mention a few we have open mails and attachments fill in forms and move files and folders follow if then rules connect to system apis extract structured data from documents make complex calculations monitor manual processes and learn how to perform them read and write databases scrape data from documents and even log into web enterprise applications next question is mention a few advantages of rpa firstly rpa reduces cost now by automating tasks the cost saving of almost 30 percent can be achieved through rpa rpa reduces operational risks various companies prefer to outsource busy work to external parties now this comes with an inherent risk of human errors and inefficiency now rpa brings forth a better solution and since work stays in-house there's less operational risk next up is quality and accuracy rpa offers services to processes with a high probability of human errors thereby increasing accuracy robots are reliable and consistent and don't complain when expected to work tirelessly next up is scalability with the help of rpa companies can make adjustments based on seasonality and can easily scale up or down the operation as needed reduced workload automating tasks like report making can significantly reduce the workload on the employee allowing them to focus on other critical tasks improved customer satisfaction since accuracy is maintained and operational risk is minimal customers are provided with quality content lastly we have improved business results since all employees are focusing on activities that add more value to the company improved results in the business are visible the next question is what are some industries that can benefit from rpa there are several industries and domains that are currently benefiting from rpa to mention a few there's banking and finance i.t integration processes human resources insurance agencies marketing and sales and customer relationship management moving on to next question what are rpa tools now to meet the objectives of rpa rpa tools are used they are the software with the help of which one can configure tasks and build bots to automate them some of the popular ones in the market today are ui path blue prism automation anywhere work fusion and redwood moving on to next question explain the working of rpa now the typical working of rpa includes four crucial stages the first stage is planning in this stage the processes to be automated are defined which includes identifying the test objects finalizing the implementation approach and defining a clear roadmap for the rpa implementation the next step is design and development in this phase you start developing the automation workflows as per the agreed plan thirdly we have deployment and testing this phase typically includes the execution of the bots any unexpected outages are to be taken care of during the deployment to ensure accurate functioning testing of these bots for bugs and errors is crucial lastly we have support and maintenance providing constant support helps in identifying and rectifying the errors better moving on to the next question what is the difference between traditional automation and rpa here's a simple image for you to go on to talk about the differences traditional automation involves programming apis and integration tools to integrate different systems rp on the other hand mimics actions of a user at the user interface level in the case of traditional automation the developer needs to have a good understanding of the target system while in rpa as long as the bot can exactly follow the steps the developer need not worry about the underlying complexities the next question is mention the types of rpa now basically there are three types of rpa first up is unattended or autonomous rpa now this is ideal for reducing work like completing data processing tasks in the background they do not require any human intervention now these bots can be launched at specific intervals or they could be bought initiated or they could be triggered by some data input next up is attended rpa now these bots live on the user's machine and are triggered by the user they can be launched when embedded on an employee's device or they can be autonomous based on certain conditions or they can be launched using the rpa client tool lastly we have hybrid rpa it has a combination of attended and autonomous bots now these bots address front and back office tasks in the enterprise the next question is what are front and back office spots now front office bots are those whose deployment is totally in the user's control they require human intervention they work from the same desktop as that of the user it can only be triggered by local machines manually and cannot run remotely when it comes to back office bots these bots can run on locked machines from the orchestrator the user may not be actively involved in its working and these bots can be triggered remotely by servers the next question is what are some features of rpa up is rich analytical suite now rpa monitors and manages automated functions from a central console now this console can be accessed from anywhere and offer basic metrics on robots servers workflows and more simple creation of pods rta tools allow quick creation of bots effortlessly by capturing mouse clicks and keystrokes with built-in screen recorder components scriptless automation rpa tools are code free and can automate any application in any department employees with less programming skills can create bots through guis security rpa tools enable the configuration as well as customization of encryption capabilities for securing certain data types to defend against the interruption of network communication hosting and deployment rpa systems can automatically deploy bots in groups of hundreds hence rpa can be installed on desktops and deployed on servers to access data for repetitive tasks debugging some rpa tools required to stop running to rectify the errors while other tools allow dynamic interaction while debugging this is one of the most powerful features of rpa moving on what are the major differences between blue prism and uipath moving on to the first feature is trial version blue prism offers a trial version it's available in two options either on cloud or on the local computer ui path on the other hand offers free addition both trial and license versions are available moving on to base technologies blue prism is completely based on c-sharp ui path is based on sharepoint kibana and elasticsearch moving on to process designer blueprism allows you to create design edit as well as test business processes from the visual business object but what exactly is a vbo a vbo can take the form of a set of coded functions which may be written in vb.net or csharp.net uipath acts as a visual process designer with friendly developer options now a visual process designer basically is a dashboard consisting of various tools through which a developer can define the automation tasks moving on to accessibility blueprism allows only browser-based accessibility uipath on the other hand provides mobile and browser accessibility moving on to robots blueprism offers back-office automation only while uipath offers both front and back office automation the next crucial factor is a macro recorder in case of blue prism a macro recorder does not exist while in the case of ui path it consists of a macro recorder enabling faster process mapping moving on what is citrix automation any automation solution built using a virtual desktop or built to work in virtual desktops is citrix automation it plays a major role in small to corporate companies like bpo and contact centers where applications are being accessed remotely because of security considerations next question is what is uipath studio now uipath studio is basically a platform to create the automation bots it encompasses hundreds of activity templates and made components to drag and drop ui path studio consists of first up is gui dashboard it offers a visual dashboard with activities like send email display message and so on it also consists of different types of recorders uipath studio offers various recorders to record actions on multiple platforms next up is logging and exception handling it offers various options for these two such as debug open blog slow step etc lastly it offers reusable components here the user can create usable components to publish them together as libraries moving on what are activities in uipath the activities panel shows available activities that can be added to the current workflow users can use the search box to find various activities navigate through them using navigation keys and press system activities pack contains all the basic activities used for creating automation projects these activities enable the robots to manipulate data tables by adding or extracting information or directly interact with directories and files on your machine performing any action a human user would also there are other types of activities in the pack that aid in the creation and execution of automation projects themselves such as logical operators and expressions moving on what is a sequence in ui path a sequence is a simple linear representation that flows from top to bottom and defines which activities are to be performed all right you can see a simple example on your screen here so to give you a detailed explanation let me just navigate to ui path and here i can create a new sequence i go to new click on sequence and let me call it sequence as it is and say create all right now a sequence is created so i want to display two messages so let's look for the activity that is message box i drag and drop it here and let me display hello first and i drag another message box and after that i drop it here and okay let me do that again all right and here i display welcome all right so let's save this and debug according to the logic hello has to be displayed first and then welcome right so let's go ahead and see if it does that all right you see a hello message first followed by which you can see the welcome message so this is what a sequence is moving on to the next question what is scraping in uipath now scraping can be done in two ways first up is data scraping now this is a technique with the help of which structured data can be extracted from the web or any application and saved to a database or a spreadsheet or a dot csv file in the case of screen scraping it is a process of collecting screen display data from one application and translating it so that another application can display it now you can see the two options on the top of your user interface in ui path moving on what are uipath robots now uipath's robots run the automation that is created using the uipath studio now there are two types of robots as discussed earlier we have attended robots now they work with you to speed up the process like service desk operation or help desk operations now it is used in activities where human involvement is key next up is unattended robots now these operate without the human touch maximizing cost and performance benefits for any variety of back office tasks next question what does a uipath orchestrator do now the orchestrator is a centralized robot management dashboard where you can easily deploy secure and manage your ui path robots at scale first you have to create the bot the project is then published as a process for further use once a process is created it is assigned to a specific robot to execute an environment this collectively constitutes a job all of this is taken care of by the uipath orchestrator next question how is exceptional handling achieved in uipath exception handling is one of the error handling methods in uipath the error handling activity has four options first up is read through now using this activity a robot throws an exception again which was previously caught while executing the workflow for this activity we don't need to provide any specified message secondly we have terminate workflow now this is a mechanism where we can ask the robot to terminate rest activities this activity is mostly used when there is no data to process to use this activity we may need to provide the exception message which the bot may login the error rock file which we can refer to later third is throw through activity is a mechanism wherein if a bot fails to execute a mentioned activity it throws an error with a specified error message to help us understand better lastly we have try catch now this activity has three parts the try block would be executed and if there was an error it will be caught in the catch section now after executing the try block robot will execute the finally block in any condition moving on what are breakpoints in uipath breakpoints are used to purposely pause the debugging process on any activity that may trigger execution issues you can place and modify a breakpoint on any of the activities as follows so from the context menu you can right click on an activity and select toggle breakpoint so let me show you how that works so here in my sequence i can just right click on it and here you can see the toggle breakpoint option you can go ahead and click on that that is one of the methods or i can select the activity and click on the breakpoints button on the debug tab so let me show you here let me select this and in my debug tab i can click on breakpoints and say toggle breakpoint that is another method and lastly i can press f9 while the desired activity is being selected it's as simple as that moving on to the next question what is a macro recorder a macro recorder allows you to record mouse events and keyboard activities to generate automation scripts now the activities are arranged based on the sequence of actions being performed on the screen right so this sequence is saved in your workflow which you can later use it to play back the recorded action moving on what are the user events in uipath mention a few now user events in uipath specify the actions performed due to the occurrence of certain events right some of these events could be click key press or monitor mouse or any monitor keyboard etc so when it comes to on click element now this basically monitors all the click events on a specified ui element the mouse buttons left right and middle are used for the click action by default the left mouse button is selected on prepress element now this monitors keyboard events on a specified ui element special keys are supported and you can select them from the activity drop down list this field supports only strings and string variables on click image this monitors the image defined by the target ui element for mouse input and monitor mouse this monitors a specified mouse key combination system-wide event moving on we have what are the different activities performed by uipath we have core activities for automation processes cognitive activities for language translations credential activities for enabling the addition or deletion of credentials database activities basically used for executed queries transactions etc we have excel activities for automating ms excel tasks ftp activities for performing functions on the ftp server intelligent ocr activities for digitization and scraping we have mail activities for working with imap pop3 smtp outlook we have pdf activities for data extraction from pdf python activities for invoking python scripts and methods terminal activities for retrieving data from the terminal we have web activities for performing soap and http requests to any web apis and their word activities for automating activities in ms world so these are the few you could mention moving on what does the control room in automation anywhere do the control room is a web-based platform that controls automation anywhere all right the control room deals with user management source control i mean the code for the bots is managed by the control room dashboard it gives complete analytics and results of automation anywhere bots and license management the purchased licenses for automation anywhere configured in the control room now there are two types of licenses in automation anywhere you have the device license which allows you to create a bot edit bot and then run a bot and you have the run license where the user can only run the bot and cannot make any changes so this is what the control room does moving on to the next question what is a bot runner now a bot runner is the machine where you run the bot now you could have multiple bots running in parallel you only need the run license to run the bots the boss report back the execution logs pass fail status back to the control room moving on what are task bots meta bots and iq boards so task bots basically are the bots that automate a rule-based repetitive task in areas like documentation administration hr claims management etc moving on to meta bots these bots are the automation building blocks it is designed in such a way that with application changes or updates you need to make minimal edits to this board any changes made to the bot is easily reflected lastly we have the iqbots now this is an advanced tool it can learn on its own and perform a task according to it iq bots offer automation using highly advanced cognitive technology moving on is robotic process automation similar to screens keeping or macros now screen scraping mostly talks about the old green screen applications mainframe ones where you basically capture the screen you process it based on its content and information that you have when it comes to rpa it is more intelligent more capable and much more robust what it does it connects to the elements whether they have windows applications or java applications does not matter they connect all the elements it does use screen scraping yes but it's just a part of robotic process automation they're not entirely the same moving on what are thick and thin clients a thick client is the application that requires certain attribute features using rpa tools example a computer a calculator or internet explorer while a thin client is the application that never requires the specific properties while using the rpe tools very simple the next question is how is a chatbot different from rpa now a chatbot is basically a bot that is programmed to chat with the user like a human being would right while in case of rta it is a bot that is programmed to automate a manual business process of executing a task or any activity with a business function all right so a chatbot can be used as a medium to feed input to the rpa bot but it cannot replicate the features of an rpa system moving on to the final question can selenium be used for rpa well there are lots of test automation tools in the market today like selenium qdp and apm these are good test automation tools and no they cannot be used for robotic process automation test automation tools have a constraint they require software in order to run but in case of rpa it can be applied to anything other than a product and mostly rpa is used to automate business processes so selenium or any test automation tool for that matter cannot be used for rpa so with that we come to the end of this crash course i hope it helped you we'll be back with more videos soon until then keep learning and stay tuned to simply learn [Music] hi there if you like this video subscribe to the simply learn youtube channel and click here to watch similar videos turn it up and get certified click here

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Published: Fri Aug 07 2020