RPA Boot Camp / Hands-On Robotic Process Automation

Learning Objectives

This “skills-centric” course is about 50% hands-on lab and 50% lecture, with extensive practical exercises designed to reinforce fundamental skills, concepts and best practices taught throughout the course.  Working in a hands-on learning environment, led by our Automation Learning expert instructor, students will explore:

• Gain a thorough understanding of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and its applications using UiPath, setting a solid foundation for future learning and application.
• Learn to record and play in UiPath Studio, a key skill that enables automating complex tasks in a user-friendly environment.
• Master the art of designing and controlling workflows using Sequencing, Flowcharting, and Control Flow, helping to streamline and manage automation processes effectively.
• Acquire practical skills in data manipulation, from variable management to CSV/Excel and data table conversions, empowering you to handle data-rich tasks with confidence.
• Develop competence in managing controls and exploring various plugins and extensions, providing a broader toolkit for handling diverse automation projects.
• Get hands-on experience with exception handling, debugging, logging, code management, and bot deployment, fundamental skills that ensure your automated processes are reliable and efficient.
• How to deploy and control Bots with UiPath Orchestrator

Audience &  Pre-Requisites

The ideal audience for the RPA and UiPath Boot Camp is beginners in the field of RPA and individuals in roles such as developers, project managers, operation analysts, and tech enthusiasts looking to familiarize themselves with automation technologies. It's also perfectly suited for business professionals keen on understanding and implementing automated solutions within their organizations to optimize processes.

Pre-Requisites:  Students should have

• Basic to Intermediate IT Skills. Attendees without a programming background like Python may view labs as follow along exercises or team with others to complete them.
• Good foundational mathematics or logic skills
• Basic Linux skills, including familiarity with command-line options such as ls, cd, cp, and su

Outline

Please note that this list of topics is based on our standard course offering, evolved from typical industry uses and trends. We will work with you to tune this course and level of coverage to target the skills you need most.

1.  What is Robotic Process Automation?

   • Act on controls – mouse and keyboard activities
   • Working with UiExplorer
   • Handling events
   • Revisit recorder
   • Screen Scraping
   • When to use OCR
   • Types of OCR available
   • How to use OCR
   • Avoiding typical failure points

   2.  Tame that Application with Plugins and Extensions

   • Terminal plugin
   • SAP automation
   • Java plugin
   • Citrix automation
   • Mail plugin
   • PDF plugin
   • Web integration
   • Excel and Word plugins
   • Credential management
   • Extensions – Java, Chrome, Firefox, and Silverlight

   3.  Handling User Events and Assistant Bots

   • What are assistant bots?
   • Monitoring system event triggers
   • Monitoring image and element triggers
   • Launching an assistant bot on a keyboard event

   4.  Exception Handling, Debugging, and Logging

   • Exception handling
   • Common exceptions and ways to handle them
   • Logging and taking screenshots
   • Debugging techniques
   • Collecting crash dumps
   • Error reporting

   5.  Managing and Maintaining the Code

   • Project organization
   • Nesting workflows
   • Reusability of workflows
   • Commenting techniques
   • State Machine
   • When to use Flowcharts, State Machines, or Sequences
   • Using config files and examples of a config file
   • Integrating a TFS server

   6.  Deploying and Maintaining the Bot

   • Publishing using publish utility
   • Overview of Orchestration Server
   • Using Orchestration Server to control bots
   • Using Orchestration Server to deploy bots
   • License management
   • Publishing and managing updates