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Hello everyone,

I am trying to integrate Oracle 19c Database with Blue Prism. I tried using Orcale MDA VBO available on Blue Prism Digital Exchange but I checked the documentation and found out that it is compatible with Oracle 21c+ only.

So, I am looking into trying OleDB for this use case but getting errors in Provider. It says OraOLEDB.Oracle is not registered.

Can anyone help me out in this?

Hi All,

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i'm trying to get a trial/learning licence for Blue Prism, and I keep getting an error:

The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later.

Can anyone help me out with a temporary licence? I need to do a recruitment task...

Hi all, thank you for your attention. I am currently a 2nd year Computer Engineering student in a polytechnic, I learned mostly about coding ( Python, Java, C, C#, etc.) and electronics. However, I had a module about UIPath and I was amazed by the application of it. Since UIPath wasn't an important module, I only learned basic skills.

I'm having an internship (not related to RPA) and I have lots of free time, I want to enhance my RPA skill in order to have an RPA internship and eventually have a decent RPA job after graduation.

May I have some guidance on where to start? Any of you have same case scenario as me before? I plan to do some personal projects that relate to RPA, do you have any suggestions?

Thank you all in advance:)

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Bit of a background, my elder brother dropped out of uni after his gf got stabbed, was never really the same again, he just played video games or went out with friends occasionally, but never went back to study or ever get a job.

It's been like 10 years since then, he's 26 now, family pretty much had given up on him, and he'll occasionally say things like it not being worth to take care of himself since he has no future etc

But last week, a childhood friend of his that he hadn't seen for like 15 years came back to the city, and he showed up and found out about all of this, he ended up recommending my brother try RPA, since apparently it doesn't require coding or a degree (though I'm sure they help)

But is this actually viable at all? My brother seems willing to try it, and he actually started doing some courses for it that he was recommended, but would there even be any hope for someone like him? Family seems equally hopeful and concerned in case it doesn't work out, since this may be his last shot at life.

Pros/Cons of having RPA contribute to the ART vs. act as shared service? For those using SAFe at your organization, I'm curious how you are organized. Please share your experiences.

Hello everyone,

as the title says I've been stuck in a RPA dev role for 7 years now. I'm 25 and I'm losing my way because I don't really think this job can help me so far and it's boring, also if i have an average salary.

I have studied IT at high school but my programming skills are, at the moment, at a very low level because i don't practice those since school as RPA is low/no code.

I don't even know if i want to keep pursuing an IT career.

Do you have any advice on how to get out of this endless hell?

EDIT: I have no degree

I'm a full-stack software developer in the USA. Last week, my (very) upper invited me over to talk about filling an RPA position. They made it clear it has to be someone from inside the company.

I hadn't heard of RPA before this meeting, and we didn't get into a lot of details. They asked if I was interested and said we could go over the details if I was.

What do you guys actually do? Is this a big market with lots of job opportunities, or is it pretty niche? Does it pay well, is it in demand, and is it a good career path?

You might be wondering why they thought of me and not someone else. I think it's because I've already written some automated testing scripts and scrapers to solve some problems we had.

They were all in JavaScript, and even though no one asked for them, they worked, so nobody complained.That probably made my bosses think, "Damn, this kid writes automation."

On also, I'm pretty sure they use Microsoft power automate or something else from Microsoft. We are fully Microsoft

As a junior RPA professional with just one year of experience in Blue Prism, I'm seeking ways to practice Blue Prism or UiPath for free since my contract has ended and I lack access to Blue Prism licenses. Additionally, coming from a background in digital marketing, I'm interested in leveraging my skills in RPA. However, finding opportunities in RPA with my level of experience in New Zealand is proving challenging. Any advice on how to proceed? Thank you.

Hello Community!,

It's time, and I beg for your help!

I have been working as a UiPath RPA developer for the last 2.5 years, and yesterday I got a call saying that I am gonna get laid off if they don't find a suitable project for me. I am a quick learner and there hasn't been any performance issue on my end. I have completed all the tasks provided to me on time and have been appreciated by managers and my clients. I have also worked on developing POCs for power automation, AA360, and python automation.

Location: India

I am willing to move anywhere. And ready to work overseas as well!

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Thank you guys

Hi everyone. I'm developing a python flask automation for the personal business of a collegue and I'm currently stuck at this: when the bot tries to login in a specific website that has a MFA integrated, it request the code. One workaround that I'm studying is to send the code via SMS and use some tool to get the OTP and use in the application. I try Twilio but they blur the code (just like some other tools that retrieve SMS).
Anyone knows how to go through this? Thanks
PS: I'm doing that because neither I or the process owner, have the cellphone available 24/7 due to different time zones.
PS2: the maximum number of messages expected is less than 10 messages/week.

MuleSoft has an RPA toolkit, is it good enough? How does it compare to the major RPA players?

Any recommendations will be appreciated

I do love the way power automate looks been using it forever I did look into n8n do like it's simple Interface but any recommend would be helpful

Can anyone help me put together a highlevel cost and technical comparison of the leading platforms (power automate, UIPATH, automation anywhere) for a medium sized enterprise? Approximately 6 medium complexity processes that will each excite 50 instances a day per day (not in parellel) and take about 1m per instance.

Hello r/rpa!

I’ve recently been using a lot of UI.Vision’s DesktopAutomation XModules, and have made a lengthy and detailed guide on using it to create macros which control more than just web apps.

No prior experience is needed, but the guide will quickly ramp up to more advanced commands. I would recommend using this guide alongside UI.Vision’s Official Documentation. The guide contains a lot of step-by-step examples and reference pictures, and it should be easy for you to quickly pick up this functionality of UI.Vision to make your own procedures.

The guide also links a lot of further resources you can use to further increase your understanding.

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(Just unpack the .zip and open index.html to open the static html page)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oLRT8RWtgrNPRj7nHMJ6LPXJk_v6C7nZ/view?usp=sharing

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I’d love to hear from any feedback or issues anybody has with the guide!

I'm in a semiconductor industry and I need to educate and introduce rpa to the management team. I'm looking for a good quality rpa introduction video , any recommended sites ? I've checked in YouTube but noticed a lot of demo around finance process, so I'm searching if there's other areas too. Please share links if there's any.

Thanks in advance!

I’m looking for usecases related to RPA+AI or GenAi

Since I'm approaching my 30s, I've told myself that in the coming year, I would like to make a decision and focus on a certain direction into which I would invest my energy. As I'm more interested in tech, specifically analytics and automation, I would need some tech career advice. Currently, in my job, I work most of the time with Excel, which has led me to VBA. This has allowed me to create many macros/projects that have saved quite a lot of hours/days of work for the whole team. I've also delved a bit into Power Automate where I've created a lot of flows and one PowerApp that helps our team as well.

Since VBA is not a widely used language, I've started thinking about how to continue with my career. I really enjoy working on projects that are focused on automation, so I found out that there are RPA positions available. These RPA positions include Blue Prism, for example, but I've also heard about Python libraries like NumPy or Pandas. However, I'm not sure if this is the right way to focus. How would you proceed further? What would you focus on? Is Blue Prism, Power Automate, or any RPA software future-proof?"

With Power Automate, how are the API cloud flows priced compared to regular RPA desktop flows? Is it transaction based?

I'm curious guys, which automation platform is more valuable im a bigginner in automation amd somwhat confused of which platformto engage? I want to study non code automation so that it can help me in one way or the other, land a job or start an automation agency. I will need your sincerely contribution.

Hi stupid question... So far I've tried using Power Automate to do some automation, like reset password, creating account and stuff...

But I have to do it on my laptop, how do I allow user to like key in their username and the reset password process will be triggered? Instead of triggering by myself

Hope I explained that well, sorry if I didn't 🙏🙏

I am looking into a what RPA options are available that might be best to automate testing specific workflows within tools used for game development.

The goal is to test each step of a standard workflow that utilizes multiple game development applications/tools and verify each step along the way.

For example, being able to do and verify each step of a workflow such as: Open Maya, create a cube, apply a texture to the cube, build/view the cube in game, and then open a material editor, make a change to applied texture, and verify that change is seen in game.

From what I've researched it seems like UiPath might be the best option to do all of that.

Wondering if anybody has had any experience using UiPath to do this or something similar, or has any better alternative solutions? Or general recommendations?

Thanks!

I currently work as an rpa developer for a company 9-5 5 days a week but it's too much.

I want to choose my own hours and days a week to work including weekends.

Is there platform or a way I can log on, code for x hours and get paid per hours?

I work in an organization that is very heavy on "old school" security, meaning "this is how we've done it for years, don't change it", but am being asked to find ways to take advantage of RPA technologies in IT ops to reduce "costs".

The challenge for me is that, for example, even a simple use case like a password reset or an account creation being automated gets roadblocked by IT Sec because they have a policy where the roles with those privileges are human techs with named accounts for accountability/responsibility reasons, and trying to ask for a generic privileged account so that an automated process can take those actions is apparently a big security no-no.

I've tried arguing the benefits but I'm being ignored so far. Wondering if anyone has successfully navigated these kinds of conversations and how you were successful.

Hi I am trying to do UI automation on "Power Automate" but I realized on my company's webpage, some fields like Anchors are not recognized..

I am using the "Click Link on webpage" connector for most of it but some just doesn't work, I replaced them with Mouse position and sending left click but afraid it may not work sometimes if the UI somehow changes

Hope I explains it well... Sorry about it if I didn't 🙏🙏

May I ask if there is any best practice to handle such scenario?

Hi experts, I am using Excel as a DB for my current learning use case. For that,Microsoft Access Database Engine is important. But I observed that, I am not able to connect Excel as a DB if Microsoft Access Database Engine's version is above 2010. Even if it is new version facing same issue. Is it mandatory to use only 2010 version to connect Excel as DB. I am using Automation Anywhere as my RPA tool.

Please advice me here.

I won't bore you with a wall of text so I put the general theme of it in the title.

It's been 4 months since I took the exam and I've exhausted all the openings I've found.

I guess this is more of a venting thread, as the experience left me somewhat disappointed and frustrated as I eagerly was hoping for a career change.

I'll start learning python and try getting into 'normal' automation.

If anyone is in a similar position or wishes to vent, feel free to use the opportunity.

For those of you asking if you should get into RPA or not, you doubt it future. Know this and have peace of mind. There's nothing you are doing as a career that the future is known. Even the almighty Artificial intelligence on the trend, we know not of the future. What ever is trending or current, do it. And never forget to pick one or two coding or programming languages alongside. Everything will come and go , but coding skills will always remain and be helpful, unless otherwise.

How could I create an rpa in python that can read the details of several invoices and sort them into a text file?

Hi everyone,

I have a friend who is a senior engineer at a Japanese tech company recommend I learn RPA when I was talking about ways I could get back to Japan. I am always open to learning new skills, but I have no background in developing. I learned the basics of Python years ago, but never really progressed beyond that.

I know that going from zero to employable on a new skill while working a full-time job can be tough and take a long time. I'm currently researching RPA and gauging whether it's realistic for me to go into. I currently work as a data entry specialist at a clinical research facility. I have some IT support experience at my last job as an office admin, but not much to offer in the realm of tech.

Minus the getting back to Japan thing (that's a personal goal), has anyone been in my shoes and considered going into RPA with no prior experience? My degree is in English and useless in this field, but I realize things are going the automation route as well and know I need to get ahead of it to stay relevant, especially as someone who works in data entry.

Any thoughts?

Edit: Upon further research this feels like a worthy cert to pursue regardless of personal goals. Can see it being useful in many different ways!

Edit 2: Still in cursory research mode, but after taking a look at the UiPath Academy learning roadmap and seeing some beginners like me try to tackle it and struggle... I'm thinking I'm going to have to go back through Automate the Boring Stuff With Python or something to re-learn the basics of programming I've no doubt forgotten by now. Or maybe I should tackle C# instead...

How insurmountable of a task is it, getting EMR vendors such as Meditech, Cerner & EPIC to allow access to an API call with their software for RPA solutions? Is this the elephant in the room?