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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Birmingham :
Packt Publishing,
2023.
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| Edición: | 1st edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
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