Beyond the early adopters, such as the banking, financial and insurance (BFSI), and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industries, many organizations across varied sectors are now looking at launching or have already started to implement a formal automation or robotisation program.
While the platform supports running multiple bots on a single server concurrently, it is important to ensure you have the correct infrastructure, operating system, and Microsoft licenses.
In some cases, designing a project requires an approach different from what Full Archetype suggests. For example, you want to automate the user interface (UI) in your internal applications via RPA bots. At the same time, you'd like to keep each RPA automation in a separate Maven module and check in each module into a separate Git repository so that you can grant Git access and share specific RPA application automations with specific teams, enabling them to reuse your code and contribute.
There are many strategic recommendations are issued on how to structure
With the introduction of the BEP execution platform:
For more details, refer to the JavaDoc documentation.
Selectors (or Locators) are used to find and match the elements of a web page or desktop app that a robot needs to interact with. Using the right selector ensures the bots are faster, more reliable or has lower maintenance over releases. If you’re fortunate enough to be working with unique IDs and Classes, then you’re usually all set. It can be a real challenge to verify that you have the right selectors to accomplish what you want.
Some applications require possession of a hardware security token for authentication. These applications as a rule employ two-factor authentication following the principle of "Something you know (password) and something you have (physical token)".
Object selectors are used for automating desktop applications only.
Overview
The universal driver provides the following benefits for rapid RPA scripts development:
The subject of the topic is applications, which are published via desktop virtualization software such as Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenDesktop, VMWare Horizon, Remote Desktop Services.
See the code below as an example:
| Type | Method | Description |
Apply selection methods
The example below shows how to run commands on a remote RPA Agent machine. Pay attention to how you can execute Groovy code remotely.
Some web applications have functionality allowing to drag web elements from one location and drop them on a defined area or even another web element.
Most of sites are dynamic and change the page content by JS scripts while a user interacts with a page.
A table is a kind of HTML data displayed with the help of the ` tag in conjunction with the and ` tags. Although there are other tags for creating tables, these are the basics for creating a table in HTML:
Launch applet and insert and extract data
A typical application looks like the one on the screenshot below:
To click an item of the drop-down menu, use the hover() method:
Automate file download
Automate Calculator
The Automation Engineer certification in Automation Academy helps trainees obtain a key professional developer role that ensures the successful delivery of a complex automation project.
The article explains different solution approaches to building code and focuses on simplified RPA API.
Glimpse at decades of RPA
The default WFRDP client resolution for each RPA Unit is 1270\*700. You can customize this value and change it for each RPA Unit.
user-settings.reg
Goal
Get Vault token
Before making any changes to Internet Explorer settings, make sure no Java processes are running.
Replace Java policy files
The use case shows how to create a dispute case from the email information.
What needs to be done if the site page loads for a very long time?
General overview
General overview
RPA Units to FTE ratio checklist
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The feature allows executing GroovyScript on a Bot machine (Windows RPA Server), not in Control Tower. For more details, see the JavaDoc link.
JavaScript is the preferred language inside the browser to interact with an HTML document object model (DOM). It means that a Browser has a JavaScript implementation in it and understands the JavaScript commands. You can disable it using browser options in your browser. The web driver still uses JavaScript to perform some actions.
RPA Unit execution lifecycle
The use case shows how to get all the stock movements for a specified material and period, and send the data to a user, along with the stock on start and end dates of the selected period.
If your goal is to create RPA automation without coding, keep working in the Recorder perspective of WorkFusion Studio. Mind that you can switch perspectives at the top right corner of the IDE window.
When you automate web page, you need to refer to elements within that web page in order to click links and determine what's displayed. However, if you manipulate the HTML elements directly your code will be brittle to changes in the UI. A page object wraps an HTML page, or fragment, with an application-specific API, allowing you to manipulate page elements without digging around in the HTML.
The use case shows how to get the stock for specific material and send the data to a user.
How to handle iframes with Robotics WebDriver
An alert is a pop-up window that comes up on the screen. There are many user actions that can result in alerts. For example, a user clicks a button that displays a message, and a web page asks for some extra information.
The topic is a brief introduction to XPath to present a quick overview of the main techniques you can use in your recordings to handle elements on a web page, for example, to click on a link or an object, get or set value from or to fields or menus. The tutorial explains the basics of XPath with suitable examples
Introduction
Why IDE has its secure storage
Sample PageObject implementation walkthrough
Also, refer to Building RPA skillset.
Inspector is a built-in tool to explore properties and values of objects located in the application, which you automate with your recording, providing functionality for quick element selector search.
To learn more about deployment, see Deploy RPA. For the general deployment architecture, refer to Installation overview | Deployment diagram.
The page covers details of WorkFusion integration with CyberArk products.
The organization’s IT Operations install the WorkFusion Enterprise development environment. A certain contribution to migration is required from the IT Operations side.
The section contains sets of shortcuts for Windows and Windows applications and utilities that can be used for their automating, e. g., when setting key combinations for the Keyboard action.
Web applications do not always confine themselves to working entirely on the web. Sometimes they need to interact with the desktop to do things like downloads and uploads. Automating these sorts of workflow is tricky in using WebDriver. WebDriver is confined to automating browsers, so desktop windows are out of scope.
Step 1: install IA Cloud Developer
Customize RPA logrotate
Why new software got into play?
View RPA standard setup workflow
Definitions
The use case shows how to create and post an incoming invoice into the SAP system.
We have started to see some negative style articles about RPA, especially about scalability and maintainability. On the one hand, we are glad that we passed the period of narcissism and started to blow off the hype bubble. On the other, these articles usually depict only one side of an issue and look like fighting with windmills or trying to criticize something that one has not tried.
The use case shows how to get information about SAP tables. There are two scenarios each of them performing almost the same actions but with different tools.
The guide contains a checklist to follow while writing requirements for Robotics Automation projects.
Robotics plugins make it possible to click through desktop or web applications using commands in Web-Harvest scripts. The location for executing the script is configured on the RPA Windows server side.
Advantages of WorkFusion Bot Config Bundle approach
The guide covers different solution approaches to building code and focuses on simplified RPA API.
For more details, refer to:
The RPA component is installed on one or several Windows-based servers where multiple Bots are running. Each Bot requires a separate RDP session. The number of the required Bot Units per RPA server depends on the disk size and daily load they must handle.
Introduction
The article describes what WebElement is and which actions you can perform on various WebElements.
Here, you will find SAP automation examples that cover possible business scenarios and show some client UI functionality. The use cases give a general overview of scenarios. Your steps can vary depending on the SAP GUI version you are using.
The SAP GUI desktop client internal structure is seen as any other Windows application. SAP GUI is automated using the Inspector tool, which is available in WorkFusion Studio.
Object recording
Before you start working with the SAP GUI client, you have to turn on scripting both in SAP GUI desktop client and on the server side.
Navigate to hidden elements
To design RPA in Bot Tasks or test a Business Process on your local workstation, we require you to run Windows OS and install the IA Cloud Developer environment as it provides RPA local execution, local Control Tower and all required components. However, IDEA works under Mac and Linux. In this case, you can skip installing IA Cloud Developer. But note that you won't have local Control Tower and Workspace and won't test RPA Bot Tasks on the local workstation.
Overview
Overview
The article contains a cheatsheet for using the main Robotics Simplified API methods.
Selenium keys enum
The rpa.yml is the configuration file, which you mandatorily must fill in before the product installation. It contains Windows users' credentials on your RPA servers. After you create the desired Windows users manually on all existing RPA servers, add their credentials to the rpa.yml file. During the product installation the provided credentials are pushed into Secrets Vault.
Below, there is the description of standard WebHarvest processors together with their attributes, syntax, and code samples you can use to design Bot Tasks.
The guide describes how to switch to the legacy ways of searching for user interface (UI) elements in UI-rich JVM applications.
Window selectors
Screenshot of browser
Sometimes, authentication of the Master user does not work as expected, and it is hard to understand the reason from logs. To view the error type, take a screenshot of the Master user authentication.
ALV, or ABAP List Viewer, is one of the most useful and powerful SAP GUI Controls. When displayed as a list, it might not be identified as a "table" on the screen, rather as a set of text rows or labels.
The use case allows to view SAP UI controls. The easy way to test SAP UI controls is to use the transactions DWDM or SE83.
If your RPA scripts stopped working after the browser update, update drivers.
How to handle ajax call using WebDriver
XPath in JavaScript: introduction
The following levels of robotic labor classification are measured by the complexity and stability of the underlying technology.
Bot Manager is an application installed on the Master Server and used to:
Overview
Each of our clients uses Intelligent Automation Cloud for different goals, but the common thing that unites all of them is writing scripts with the help of RPA Recorder. There are several recommendations that can help you to make your script not only functional but also clear for understanding and flexible to support.