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  • Robotic process automation is an emerging form of business process automation technology based on the notion of software robots or artificial intelligence workers. This sub is dedicated to discussion of robotic process automation, rpa tools and the field in general.

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Which one will be replaced first by IA ? Structural engineer or RPA developer ?

All is on the tittle

Thank you

9 Comments
2024/11/04
09:37 UTC

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Migrating an existing solution from UIPath to Power Automate

Is this in the realm of possibilty? I am fully aware that this will require a full rewrite but from technology perspective, if someone deemed that the opportunity was a candidate for an rpa technology like uipath, what are the chances that power automate will be able to automate the same flows?

Also, is it near impossible to create conmectors for old legacy systems? Like old SAP based stuff?

12 Comments
2024/11/02
22:32 UTC

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Anyone make the switch from UiPath to BluePrism?

I've got 6 years of experience in UiPath and now I have a job opportunity with a company that's just started with Blue Prism. Going through the training they seem fairly similar, but I'd love to hear experiences of anyone who made a similar switch. What did you find easier or harder?

13 Comments
2024/11/02
15:16 UTC

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How to Gain RPA Experience When Opportunities Are Limited?

Hi, I’m currently learning UiPath Studio and have around four Diplomas of Completion (I’m continuing to study to gain the knowledge needed to complete the Certified Professional Automation Developer Associate). I’ve been considering finding practice opportunities in hopes of obtaining an RPA Developer job and experience, but on most platforms I use to search for jobs, information, or internships, there aren't many options available in Colombia. So, maybe volunteering or freelancing could help me gain the experience I need to work in the future? Has anyone had a similar experience or found methods or alternatives to get started? Let me know, and have a nice day.

11 Comments
2024/11/02
00:12 UTC

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Where are the gaps in the rpa ecosystem?

Hi community,

Me and a few friends have worked on various automation tasks during our tenure at various companies. The primary tool of use has been python and selenium. However, dabbled with uipath, zapier, and n8n here and there for various tasks where we felt coding was a pain.

We have been planning to startup in the space in agentic AI and automation and was looking for feedback from the community as to where do you guys see market gaps in the ecosystem? We are currently working with a few customers while we improve the product and realised some gaps in terms of the fact that many small to mid size enterprises don't really have the financial or the team bandwidth to use solutions like uipath or zapier and potentially there is a market gap there. While talking to brands, we realised many of the marketplace seller panels don't have well defined APIs so bots to consolidate data collection from these seller panels is one high-value potential use case. Similarly, for large scale monitoring across marketplaces.

I'd love to know more about potential gaps that people see from their experiences in terms of industry, use cases, or difficulty of implementation. Looking forward for your feedback or any tips that folks might have.

3 Comments
2024/10/30
05:54 UTC

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Has anyone worked on Mobile Testing with UiPath?

Asking this purely out of curiosity.
We've had a request popup during presales for mobile testing and the team was debating whether to hand it off entirely to the manual testers or to use UiPath.
I'd appreciate it if you could share your experiences working with this module.

2 Comments
2024/10/30
03:50 UTC

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RPA to Agentics Automation

Hello everybody,

I am currently an RPA Developer (primarily using UiPath) but I also have experience in coding. Over the past few weeks I've been researching about AI Agents and at this point I believe we’re on the brink of a significant shift.

What I am gonna do is doing some brainstorming sessions in my consultant company to keep up with this change. Although, UiPath is announced some Agentics updates, I believe we all should be doing something and be prepared. Also Claude's Anthropic and Google's Jarvis Project is aiming to do direct automation with AI. I think it will be not cheap at first but in time can take over the RPA.

The aim of this post to making some brainstorm together and let each other know what we are currently doing about agentics change.

Agent update that I mention about UiPath is: Agent Builder

19 Comments
2024/10/29
14:40 UTC

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Need suggestion on invoice processing in uipath using azure document intelligence and action center

Hello, I’m trying to build a invoice processing framework where we use azure document intelligence for extraction for invoices.( We are trying to use this one as the document understanding is costly for us, as we use very less AI units).

My question is there any way to use the json file given as output by the pre built invoice model of azure document intelligence and upload it to action center and create a human in loop validation just like how document understanding does?

2 Comments
2024/10/28
03:52 UTC

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An intro to RPA

Hello, I'm a programming and RPA noob. I don't know much about it. But I loved the idea to be able to mimic the human interaction and creating a bot for the manual tasks. Can someone share some resources to help me understand what resources should I check to learn this?

10 Comments
2024/10/25
09:00 UTC

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Programming language

As an Rpa Developer i need to upskill myself.Which programming language i need to use as a next either i should jump into html,css and javascript or python. I have basic python knowledge. In order to stay relevant which one i need to choose

16 Comments
2024/10/24
14:20 UTC

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If I had RPA to my SAP experience will that be beneficial?

I often read that the RPA field is matured and now saturated. I think learning it will be very beneficial to my career. I’m a SAP Developer and I think there are some useful things I can do with RPA tools.

2 Comments
2024/10/23
16:24 UTC

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Where to practice raw recordings to process maps ?

I would like to practice recordings from task mining to process mapping

4 Comments
2024/10/20
20:17 UTC

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Career Path - RPA

Community! Is Product Management something that’s a good area for RPA developers to get into? If so need some guidance on what would be the requirements and also on the feasibility of this. And if not need some ideas of areas to offset to from RPA

1 Comment
2024/10/20
13:14 UTC

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UIPath Forward - first time attending

Hey guys, I’ve been learning RPA on my own and decided to go to the UIPath forward conference in Vegas.

I’m hoping to get a contract job in RPA to supplement my full-time job.

Does anyone have any advice for things to check out at the conference?

Also, I’d kindly ask that you skip any “don’t bother going” or that kind of negative feedback. My plane ticket and registration are purchased, I’m going. I’m just asking for helpful advice.

Thank you!

8 Comments
2024/10/19
06:48 UTC

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Task Recording, Mimica

Hi guys I want to find resources or practice of process mapping flows having data or actions

And i want to see examples of task mining and understand the steps takens

Its for an Internview

Thanka

1 Comment
2024/10/18
22:00 UTC

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Headless browser behind authentication?

Currently I am using Blue Prism automate some website interactions but I have to be a logged in user. These sites have timeouts and have MFA. We have been using twilio to receive the code and then interact with site with RPA.

To be honest I feel like it is overkill and I want to use as little UI interaction as possible due to the changing of the site's UI.

I have seen webscrapers interact with shopping sites etc. but has anyone done this with a website requiring authentication & frequent timeouts?

Edit: Some examples of what I would like to do is download files, fill in textboxes

3 Comments
2024/10/18
18:22 UTC

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Need help in integrating two client related applications via zapier

Help on integrating two applications

Hello devs,

I have seen both my client applications support integration with zapier, want help from zapier professionals, who can help me in integrating two applications, I have no prior knowledge on zapier, eager to learn and implement

Anyone who wanted to help, please DM!!

3 Comments
2024/10/18
04:22 UTC

2

Monitoring Process jobs…

How does everyone monitor their process jobs to ensure they complete on time, aren’t getting stuck and have good success rates???

Looking for your methods. I’ve run several COEs for RPA and have built a solution. Looking for validation and also, if anyone is interested in working with our first release. Then discussing other scenarios we can build out for you.

If interested DM or respond to the thread.

Cheers

16 Comments
2024/10/17
22:52 UTC

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Alert() handling with headless browsers

If a web application has extensive data validation and other logic tied to alert() popups, how do you deal with it?

Unless I am mistaken, a headless browser will simply ignore the alert()s. Depending on the application being automated, this could have severe consequences.

I would love to better understand what mechanisms are ideal for dismissing or interacting with an alert pop-up in a Chrome browser. I want to know how those mechanisms work.

1 Comment
2024/10/16
05:29 UTC

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Using docker with RPA

We have a large requirement for one of our clients and are looking at setting up a private cloud environment for them. Traditionally we have been using a VM per unattended runner, but I am wondering if I could achieve greater efficiency by creating process-specific docker containers and then calling them when the process executes. Will this work? Has anyone done this? Would this eliminate the need for VM’s?

5 Comments
2024/10/16
03:31 UTC

3

DOM selectors vs computer vision

For RPA web automation, what are the tradeoffs of using HTML DOM selectors vs. computer vision? Are there any cases where it makes sense to use one over the other?

Computer vision should be more generalizable in theory, but it seems that it's usually used as a fallback only if HTML selectors aren't working. Is there a reason why computer vision isn't more widely used for web automation?

4 Comments
2024/10/16
01:17 UTC

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Auto pdd generator

Hello my RPA geeks. Just wanted to share something cool i have been using in Turbotic ai.

If you are like me and hate spending hours on PDDs, this feature does it for you. It pulls the process data from the discovery call recording and generate high level and detailed process steps. Along with the detailed steps it also generates the relevent screenshots!

They clam the accuracy to be greater than 70 percent but u personally got the steps that were more than 90 percent accurate.

Let me know if you have tried it or have any thoughts.

17 Comments
2024/10/15
10:39 UTC

7

Rpa

Have anyone working as a Rpa Developer in Malaysia, How is Rpa Market there , i got an interview opportunity for a Malaysian client,Have anyone attended the rpa interview for malaysian clients if yes please help what are those things they will ask usually

3 Comments
2024/10/15
09:09 UTC

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Contract work in Australia

What's your experience doing contract work for an RPA dev role in Australia? Is it advisable to do in late 2024? Or not because you'll have nowhere to go after 1-3 years of contract work? What are your thoughts?

1 Comment
2024/10/11
02:47 UTC

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Automated document processing software reviews -- what's the tip of spear on the enterprise AI front?

Looking for input on best in class enterprise document processing software with the right set of workflow automation and pricing. Any suggestions?

So far these are the top options on my list:

View Poll

5 Comments
2024/10/10
17:30 UTC

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Integrating Llama model to Rpa

I am planning to integrate Llama model into Uipath. I am planning like using Hugging face for train some model, initially i am planning like collecting invoice data and pretrain those models in Hugging Face i am going to start with very basics like extracting data from invoice just to understand how this works, My questions i have idea but i dont know where to start totally got confused sometimes, if any one have done this can you help me how can i implement this in my Rpa Solutions it will be more helpful

7 Comments
2024/10/09
07:06 UTC

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Ai Agents

Hi collegues! I'm looking for good materials on ai agents and how to implement those in a project in English or Polish, hopefully cheap or free. I tried to convince my Manager for the training but plan failed.

13 Comments
2024/10/07
18:55 UTC

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