Level of Difficulty: Beginner – Senior. Discord is a great place to get a community of like-minded people together to partake in a whole range of activities, from gaming and home automation to Q&A community forums right across to using educational forums and everything in between. The more informal options often have text or voiceContinue reading “[Automation] Integrating with the MusicMaker Bot on Discord (Using UiPath)”
Category Archives: UiPath
[Et al.] Understanding UiPath Licensing Compared to Power Platform Licensing
Level of Difficulty: Beginner – Senior. As a follow-on from the post written comparing UiPath to the Microsoft Power Platform, this post aims to unpack the different licenses and licensing strategies implemented by the two different vendors. Since both are leaders in the automation space, it is apt to understand both when evaluating the feasibilityContinue reading “[Et al.] Understanding UiPath Licensing Compared to Power Platform Licensing”
[UiPath] Setting up a Power BI Custom Connector for UiPath Data Service
Level of Difficulty: Intermediate – Senior. UiPath Data Service has become a sophisticated way to encapsulate data and information used in automation solutions within the UiPath platform without needing to invest in additional infrastructure. The power that data enables which ties everything together is the ability to integrate and visualise the available data. For this,Continue reading “[UiPath] Setting up a Power BI Custom Connector for UiPath Data Service”
[UiPath] Creating a UiPath Data Services Entity Record From UiPath Studio
Level of Difficulty: Junior – Senior. I recently started playing with integrating UiPath Apps, UiPath Data Services and UiPath Storage Buckets into my automations. It has been a tremendous amount of fun to see it all come together and how it all gels together. I had a few challenges creating records in UiPath Data ServicesContinue reading “[UiPath] Creating a UiPath Data Services Entity Record From UiPath Studio”
[UiPath] Task Capture Good Practices
Level of Difficulty: Junior – Senior. UiPath Task Capture is a tool that exists within the UiPath product offering. It has been tagged as a “Prepare Automation” type tool which assists in mapping out a process in terms of process steps, screenshots, actions and descriptions. The UiPath Task Capture Document can be exported as aContinue reading “[UiPath] Task Capture Good Practices”
[UiPath] Preparing for the UiPath Advanced RPA Developer (UiARD) Certification Exam
Level of Difficulty: Junior – Senior. Since writing the UiPath Advanced RPA Developer (UiARD) Certification Exam, I have received many questions about and requests for assistance with preparing for the exam. So I’ve decided to detail an approach that worked for me. Some background context – the first time I wrote the certification over aContinue reading “[UiPath] Preparing for the UiPath Advanced RPA Developer (UiARD) Certification Exam”
[UiPath] Uploading Files to UiPath Storage Buckets
Level of Difficulty: Junior – Senior. I recently started playing with integrating UiPath Apps, UiPath Data Services and UiPath Storage Buckets into my automations. It has been a tremendous amount of fun to see it all come together and how it all gels together. One of my biggest frustrations, however, was getting my file uploadsContinue reading “[UiPath] Uploading Files to UiPath Storage Buckets”
[RPA] Publishing Test Cases From UiPath Studio to UiPath Test Manager
Level of Difficulty: Intermediate – Senior. This post assumes that the background information and pre-work has already been done. The pre-work mainly refers to the understanding of the business problem, the identification of test cases and unit tests as well as the development of the test cases and unit tests. A two-part series was releasedContinue reading “[RPA] Publishing Test Cases From UiPath Studio to UiPath Test Manager”
[Automation] Starting a K2 Workflow from UiPath
Level of Difficulty: Beginner – Senior. UiPath has written an activity (UiPath.K2.Activities) that starts a K2 workflow. It seems quite simple at first; the only input properties that it expects are the service URL, username, password and workflow ID. It was ideal for what I was trying to achieve, until it wouldn’t load my workflowsContinue reading “[Automation] Starting a K2 Workflow from UiPath”
[Automation] Working with SQL transactions in UiPath
Level of Difficulty: Beginner – Senior. When working with databases, the use of transactions is a very healthy habit to get used to. It will save you from those update or delete statements without a where clause that cannot be undone (especially in prod… Imagine…). UiPath presents the Start Transaction activity which claims to doContinue reading “[Automation] Working with SQL transactions in UiPath”
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