How to learn UiPath by yourself? I received many questions from readers for RPA blogs published before. Few important questions were as below, which triggered me to write this blog. “How can I start learning RPA?” “Which RPA tool is better, BluePrism or UiPath?” “How to get UiPath certification?” As we know that, to learn RPA we do not require any programming knowledge, so any one with business process knowledge can easily learn it. Let’s discuss how you can do it. How can I start learning RPA? To learn RPA, important things you will require are willingness to do it and RPA tool. As most of the RPA tools work in same way, so learning anyone tool can be sufficient. I am taking example of BluePrism and UiPath as they are popularly known. You can learn UiPath RPA tool absolutely for free and get certified as well for free. No worries, I will let you know how you can do that. BluePrism is not freely available, you will need licensed copy and then you can learn it
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Automatable types Uipath different kinds of automation There are various automation performed based on the process you automate and systems\applications it interact with. The following list tell us an overview of automatable tasks, Excel Automation Can read excel, write excel either entire sheet or a particular cell again based on tool used to automate. Create excel, with the support of vbscript some tools give more capability to perform different operations on excel. Web automation Any browser related actions like connecting to a website and performing operations comes into this category. When we need to do data entry into a website or retrieve data from a website or perform other operations on any web related activity this automation is used. Desktop Automation Unlike web automation the standard desktop applications can be automated under this category. This includes opening the applications that are present in your system, performing
Uipath Selectors Selectors To identify an element on the UI tools require some kind of identification mechanism. This can be through background by element Id’s or UI Image. The unique way of identifying an element can be through its ID. User interfaces and HTML web pages are built using a series of containers, nested one inside the other. Selectors store these attributes, in the shape of an XML fragment so that a specific element from a window or page can be identified. For example lets consider text box element that is present in a container the element that has the ID as item1 and name on the element as Nokia, then the selector can look like <webctrl Id='item1' aaname='Nokia' parentid='container1' tag='input'> Lets now see how to form selectors , in uipath we don’t need to struggle much to fo
Uipath Activities Different types of Activities Uipath comes with a great variety of activities to perform different automation tasks. With this rich set of activities . In additional to that if we require an additional functionality that is not present then we can create a custom activity which is explained in later article. Below picture represents uipath studio UiPath Studio The activities are present in the left hand side activity pane where all the activities are present categorized under different sections. The other panes include the output pane at the bottom. On to the right contains Properties pane and outline pane. On the top contains the tool bar. Now lets get more into the activities, initially I will explain frequently used activities later on I will add on more Sequence This activity is placed in the workflow to group or hold a set of activities in it. All li
UiPath Certification questions and answers Robotic Process Automation UiPath Beginner Certification The UiPath Academy Certification Program empowers you to grow as a professional and reach new heights in the digital era. Please click on the below link to register in the UiPath academy site to complete the certification. The UiPath training academy consists of different lessons where a user can learn each lesson, to be a proficient with the tool and to clear the certification. The certification consists of 45 questions which are multiple choice questions, where a user is given 3 chances per day to complete the certification Please find the below sample questions from the certification exams that helps you to be prepared for the certification to clear in first attempt. 1) Where can you see the activities that make up a workflow? In the Activities pane In the Workspace pane In
UiPath Studio UiPath Studio UiPath is a robotic process automation tool which provides capabilities to automate all kinds of processes. The UiPath tool is not a freeware and is available from https://www.uipath.com/studio. The tool provides a trail version for two months from the official site. Lets check more depth into the tool. UiPath studio contains many sections\panes where each has its own importance. On the top we have menu bar and tool bar. The menu\tool bar contains the following menu options New- To create a new workflow Save – To save existing workflow after editing. Run – Use F5 or this menu button to run the workflow created. Cut, Copy, Paste – Allows performing Cut, Copy and Paste activities inside a workflow. Undo, Redo - This allows redoing or undoing the last action. Launch Ui Explorer – Gives you various options to frame selectors. Recording – Allows recording a set off actions in various categorie