Democratizing RPA with Power Automate Desktop : boost your productivity by implementing best practices for automating repetitive desktop processes

Democratizing RPA with Power Automate Desktop boost your productivity by implementing best practices for automating repetitive desktop processes

Discover how desktop flows can interact with your everyday tools and automate tasks, freeing up time to do more important things Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Key Features Learn how Office programs can assist with automating recurring tasks Maintain superior work qua...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Krause, Peter, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Birmingham : Packt Publishing 2023.
Edición:1st edition
Materias:
Management information systems.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009742725206719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • 1
  • Getting Started with Power Automate Desktop
  • What is PAD and what can it do?
  • Example 1
  • automatic response letter processing
  • Example 2
  • integration of a legacy application
  • What processes should be automated?
  • How it all started
  • robotic process automation
  • Microsoft Power Platform at a glance
  • UI flows demystified and their role in Power Platform
  • Connecting PAD to the cloud
  • Introducing Power Platform environments
  • Understanding the potential of PAD by looking at an example with MS Office
  • Summary
  • Further reading
  • 2
  • Using Power Automate Desktop and Creating Our First Flow
  • Understanding the prerequisites for installing PAD
  • The Windows operating system
  • Microsoft account
  • Installing PAD
  • Creating our first flow
  • Artifacts of the user interface explained
  • The Power Automate container window
  • The designer window
  • Making use of the recorder
  • Summary
  • Further reading
  • 3
  • Editing and Debugging UI Flows
  • Details of the designer window/workspace
  • The parameters dialog
  • Global menu options
  • Using breakpoints
  • Working with subflows
  • Strategies for effective flow creation
  • Start simple
  • Split the whole task
  • Work on a single item before looping
  • Deactivate to test steps
  • Adapt to the available options
  • Summary
  • 4
  • Basic Structure Elements and Flow Control
  • Technical requirements
  • Using conditionals
  • Starting with If and Else
  • Else If action
  • Special If actions
  • Conditionals with multiple branches
  • Handling repetitive tasks with Loop statements
  • The Loop action
  • Loop condition
  • For each
  • Additional action for flow control
  • Error handling
  • On block error
  • Summary
  • 5
  • Variables, UI Elements, and Images
  • Variables and how to use them
  • Flow variables
  • Input and output variables
  • Variable types
  • The % notation
  • Identifying and creating UI elements
  • How to use images with PAD
  • Summary
  • Further reading
  • 6
  • Actions for UI Automation
  • Why do we need UI actions?
  • Identify a window
  • Interact with a window
  • Extract data from a window
  • Fill in data in a window
  • UI actions in action
  • Microsoft Access database as a source system
  • Windows executable as the target system
  • Deconstructing the workflow
  • Summary
  • Further reading
  • 7
  • Automate Your Desktop and Workstation
  • Technical requirements
  • Windows and desktop management
  • Controlling processes and services
  • Command-line sessions and scripting
  • Handling files and folders on your desktop
  • Operating computer peripherals
  • Workstation
  • Mouse, keyboard, and clipboard
  • Creating a PowerPoint system report by using mouse and keyboard actions
  • Final remark
  • Summary
  • Further reading
  • 8
  • Automating Standard Business Applications
  • Technical requirements
  • Automating Microsoft Office
  • Automating Outlook with actions
  • Automating Excel actions

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