UiPath: Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

Course details

Get started with UiPath, a leading robotic process automation (RPA) tool. This course offers a hands-on guide to automating a variety of software-controllable process using this popular tool. Instructor Bryan Lamb helps to acquaint you with the main capabilities of UiPath and demonstrates how to use key features to automate business processes against a variety of target systems, including Excel spreadsheets. He also shows how to work with flowcharts to document enterprise processes, how to handle errors, how to schedule and manage your software robots with Orchestrator, and more.

Learning objectives
Why UiPath?
Creating new projects
Opening and reading text files
Using a loop to repeat work
Debugging
Using variables to handle data
Handling errors
Controlling your robots with Orchestrator
Creating a reusable workflow
Creating data tables
Excel automation basics

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - About the course
02 - About me
03 - Why UiPath
04 - Who can use the free version of UiPath
05 - Demo - Build a simple software robot
06 - Where to go for fast technical assistance
07 - A note on the RPA Tech Primer

1. Community Edition Installation (Windows)

08 - Install UiPath Studio
09 - Install important packages
10 - Examine the installed activities
11 - Set up browsers
12 - Renewing a community edition license

2. Orientation

13 - UIPath orientation
14 - Create new projects
15 - Open and copy existing projects
16 - Project and tool windows tour

3. Basic UiPath Skills

17 - Basic UIPath skills overview
18 - Quick tour of all activities
19 - Sequences and flowcharts
20 - Display a message box
21 - Logging to the output window
22 - Open and read a text file
23 - Use a loop to repeat work
24 - Send email

4. Debugging

25 - Run in debug mode
26 - Set a break point and debug line by line

5. Using Variables to Handle Data

27 - Variables
28 - Using the Variables pane
29 - Browsing for special variable types
30 - Using the Assign activity
31 - Variables as the output of activities
32 - Variable scope

6. Script Control Flow

33 - If else - Making a choice
34 - Flowchart decision diamond
35 - Switch - Handling many choices
36 - Flow switch

7. Handling Errors

37 - Try catch intro - Catch an exception
38 - Create and throw a new exception

8. Control Your Robots with Orchestrator

39 - Orchestrator overview
40 - Create an Orchestrator account
41 - Login, setup, and tour of the UI
42 - Connecting a robot
43 - Create environment and associate the robot
44 - Publish a package
45 - Create a process from the package
46 - Run an attended robot and examine logs
47 - Fix the robot and republish
48 - Schedule and run an unattended robot
49 - Assets - Overview and creation
50 - Assets - Consuming from a robot
51 - Robot-level input parameters
52 - Pause an attended robot (version 2018.4+)

9. Web Browser Automation Basics

53 - Create the assets and project
54 - Retrieve the assets
55 - Open and close the browser
56 - Log in and log out
57 - Perform a search
58 - Enabling pop-up windows

10. Reusable Shareable Workflows

59 - Workflow overview
60 - Create a reusable shareable workflow
61 - Pass data into a reusable workflow
62 - Get data out of a reusable workflow
63 - Extract a workflow

11. Data Tables

64 - Introduction to data tables
65 - Tour of data table activities
66 - Create a data table
67 - Edit data table columns (version 2018.3+)
68 - Add data table rows
69 - Loop through the rows of a data table
70 - Query the table
71 - Difficult - Delete a data table row

12. Excel Automation Basics

72 - About worksheets
73 - Excel worksheet activity overview
74 - Read worksheet into a data table
75 - Write data table into a worksheet
76 - Append data table into a worksheet
77 - Read and write worksheet cell data
78 - Read range, transform table, and write range

13. Mainframe Automation Basics

79 - Mainframe intro
80 - Mainframe automation