Category: RPA

Descriptors in Studio (UiRPA part 11)

Post author By Valeriu Bosneaga
Post date October 12, 2022

About the course

The Descriptors in UiPath Studio course teaches more about user interface automation with UiPath using Modern design experience. In this course, you’ll learn what Descriptors are in UiPath Studio, Advanced options in the selection window, as well as Target element validation. You’ll learn how to configure and fine-tune Descriptor when you encounter difficult situations.  

Descriptors in Studio is a two-hour full course. It’s applicable to those who already understand RPA, more specifically UI automation. At the end of the Descriptors in UiPath Studio course, you receive a diploma of completion.

What you will learn in this course

At the end of this course, you should be able to:

State all the Advanced options of the selection window.
Explain when to make use of Enforce visibility, Dynamic Text Target and Native Text Target options.
Explain how to use the Image selection option.
Define what UI Descriptors are.
Explain how the Descriptor gets generated.
Explain how the target element validation works.
Choose the correct targeting method while automating UI elements.
Explain how to explore the attributes of UI elements to build the automation logic.
Fine-tune Descriptor to uniquely identify the required UI elements on the screen.
Explain what the Object Repository is.
State the key benefits of an Object Repository.
Explain the key concepts in the Object Repository: UI Descriptors, UI Elements, Screens, Applications, UI Libraries.

Tags Anchor, Descriptors, Descriptors in Studio, Fine-tuning Descriptors, Fuzzy Selectors, Image, Learn UiPath, Native Text, Object Repository, Selectors, Target, UI Frameworks, UiPath Academy, Unified Target

RPA UiPath

Selectors in Studio (UiRPA part 10)

Post author By Valeriu Bosneaga
Post date October 11, 2022

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About the course

In this course, you will learn about the main targeting method for UI Automation activities: selectors. We’ll first get familiar with the concept, then we’ll get to more in-depth topics, such as the types of selectors, the UI Explorer, the Property Explorer, and configuring selectors to handle different situations.

What you will learn in this course

At the end of this course, you should be able to:

Explain a selector and its structure.
Explain various types of selectors and their settings when automating.
Describe how to explore the attributes of the User Interface element.
Explain various approaches to fine-tune selectors to make them reliable.
Fine-tune selectors to improve element identification precision.

Tags Anchor Base, Find Children, Fine-tuning Selectors, Full Selectors, idx, Learn UiPath, Partial Selectors, Property Explorer, Relative Selector, Selectors, UI Explorer, UI Framework, UiPath Academy, Visual tree hierarchy, Wildcards

RPA UiPath

Data Manipulation with Strings in Studio (UiRPA part 8)

Post author By Valeriu Bosneaga
Post date October 11, 2022

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About the course

In this course, you will find out what data manipulation is, how to work with Strings and how to use the RegEx Builder. These will be demonstrated using some of the most common data types that you’ll encounter in your work, namely Strings and Lists.

What you will learn in this course

At the end of this course you will be able to perform the following operations in UiPath Studio:

Use the most common .NET methods to manipulate values contained in variables of type String.
Use the RegEx builder in UiPath Studio to perform complex string manipulation.

Tags Data manipulation, Learn UiPath, RegEx, String manipulation, UiPath Academy

RPA UiPath

DataTables and Excel Automation With Studio (UiRPA part 7)

Post author By Valeriu Bosneaga
Post date October 10, 2022

Data Tables and Excel Automation with Studio

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About the course

This course covers automating one of the most widely used business tools—Excel. You will learn the different ways to work with Excel and associated files (.xlsx, .xls, .csv) using the specific methods and tools that UiPath Studio offers. The course will also introduce a type of variable meant for working with Excel files and databases, the DataTable (System.Data.DataTable).

Tags DataTable, Excel, Excel Automation, Learn UiPath, UiPath Academy, Workbook

RPA UiPath

UI Automation with Studio (UiRPA part 6)

Post author By Valeriu Bosneaga
Post date October 4, 2022

UI Automation with Studio

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About the course

Through this set of UI automation tutorials, you’ll learn about UI automation with UiPath. You’ll practice both the modern design experience and the classic design experience. Learn to effectively build User Interface automation projects using activities like Use Application Browser, Click, Type Into, Get Text, Check APP state and so on. This course also covers the corresponding Input methods, such as Chromium API, Simulate, Send Windows Messages. And the Output methods such as Full text, Native and OCR.

This UiPath Studio guide builds on what you’ve already learned about RPA development. It teaches you about UI Automation with Studio to continue your automation journey. 

Product alignment: this course was built using the 2021.10 product version of UiPath Studio and applies to newer versions as well. 

RPA UiPath

Control Flow (UiRPA part 5)

Post author By Valeriu Bosneaga
Post date September 19, 2022

Control Flow in Studio

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Overview

The Control Flow in Studio course is an intermediate course that describes how the control flow activities are executed throughout the process. You’ll learn how to use the If, While, Do While, For Each, Switch, and Parallel activities to control the order in which activities are executed within a process.

Tags Conditional, Control Flow, Do While, For Each, If, Learn UiPath, Loops, Parallel Activity, Switch, UiPath Academy, While

RPA UiPath

Variables and Arguments in Studio (UiRPA part 4)

Post author By Valeriu Bosneaga
Post date September 19, 2022

Variables and Arguments in Studio

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The Variables and Arguments in Studio course is an intermediate course that introduces you to how data is collected, stored, processed, and passed between various activities and workflows in UiPath Studio. You’ll learn how variables help us collect, store, process, and pass data within a workflow. You’ll learn about the various types of data and their conversion methods. You’ll also learn how arguments are used in UiPath and how the Invoke Workflow Activity helps us pass data between workflows.

Tags Arguments, Learn UiPath, UiPath Academy, Variables

RPA UiPath

A Day in the Life of an RPA Developer (UiRPA part 3)

Post author By Valeriu Bosneaga
Post date September 6, 2022

A Day in the Life of an RPA Developer

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Overview

The module is for beginners and takes 40 mins to complete. Its primary purpose is to teach the differences between processes and procedures, provides you with the set criteria for assessing automation potential, and describes the responsibility and collaboration of the RPA Developer throughout the stages of an RPA project implementation.

Tags Learn UiPath, RPA Developer, UiPath Academy

RPA UiPath

Build Your First Process With UiPath (UiRPA part 2)

Post author By Valeriu Bosneaga
Post date September 5, 2022

Build Your First Process With Studio

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Overview

The module is for beginners and takes 1 hour and 20 min to complete. Its main purpose is to teach you how to build a simple automation process based on business requirements using UiPath Studio.

Tags Learn UiPath, UiPath Academy