[Automation] Integrating with the MusicMaker Bot on Discord (Using UiPath)

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)”

[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] 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] Things I wish I knew Before my First Power Automate Hyperautomation Implementation

Level of Difficulty: Beginner – Senior. Any toolset comes with it’s own unique tricks and challenges. There is a ‘first time’ for everything which comes with a list of lessons learnt. By sharing these lists, we better prepare the community of developers who may be facing similar challenges. Here’s a summarised list of lessons learntContinue reading “[Automation] Things I wish I knew Before my First Power Automate Hyperautomation Implementation”

[Automation] Retrieving a List of Mail Senders From a Shared Mailbox (Using Outlook and Python)

Level of Difficulty: Beginner – Senior. Have you ever had a use case where you have a shared mailbox setup on your Outlook but you don’t have the credentials to the account behind the mailbox (if one exists)? Well you can get around that by running the Python script detailed in this post. The approachContinue reading “[Automation] Retrieving a List of Mail Senders From a Shared Mailbox (Using Outlook and Python)”

[Automation] A Comparison Between UiPath and Power Automate

Level of Difficulty: Beginner – Senior. Automation is becoming a hot topic in conversations about the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) and fifth industrial revolution (5IR). Automation is referred to as the use of technology to replace human labour or even work alongside people in some way, leading to some sort of benefits (or saving) ofContinue reading “[Automation] A Comparison Between UiPath and Power Automate”

[RPA] Getting Started With UiPath Insights Cloud

Level of Difficulty: Beginner. UiPath Insights is an RPA analytics solution that enables your business to track, measure, and manage the performance of your entire automation program. UiPath Insights can be used with a cloud orchestrator or a stand-alone orchestrator. If you have a stand-alone orchestrator, you can follow this guide to set up UiPathContinue reading “[RPA] Getting Started With UiPath Insights Cloud”

[RPA] Conditional Assigns in UiPath – Using The Shorthand IF Statement

Level of Difficulty: Beginner. Have you ever wanted to assign a variable based on the value of another variable but… Without the use of an IF statement block? Here’s how to achieve that. Let’s take an example… We have a boolean variable, named UnicornsExist which can be set by the user through an input dialog.Continue reading “[RPA] Conditional Assigns in UiPath – Using The Shorthand IF Statement”

[RPA] Automating Azure DevOps Project, Repository and Work Items Creation through UiPath

Level of Difficulty: Beginner – Intermediate. This post will assist in automating the creation of projects, repositories and work items in Azure DevOps through UiPath by using the Azure DevOps API. There are multiple Azure DevOps libraries available on the UiPath Marketplace that make the API calls for you but the aim of this postContinue reading “[RPA] Automating Azure DevOps Project, Repository and Work Items Creation through UiPath”