UiPath Agentic RPA - Tech Primer

Explore setup and installation of office 365 apps, UiPath Studio, PyCharm, Visual Studio, and SQL Studio while linking flow charts, automation targets, and databases to programming basics.

Install Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook locally to enable UiPath automation on local files and folders. Learn to manage saving locally versus to OneDrive and the cloud.

Install Python and set up the PyCharm Community Edition to support Robot Framework automation, including configuring path, pip, and a local development folder.

Install UiPath Studio and explore core RPA components—Studio, Orchestrator, and robots—sign up for the community edition, configure a cloud organization, and create a simple 'Hello from a robot' automation.

Explore the Windows file system to optimize manual tasks, identify common disks, folders, and files, and align them with your RPA tool to automate steps and improve estimates.

Explore how files and extensions work in windows, and how UiPath handles file operations—list, create, rename, copy, move, observe, and pass full paths—across local and cloud environments.

Explore absolute versus relative paths in the command prompt and RPA tasks, using cd, dot backslash, and dot dot backslash to navigate directories.

Automate sequences of Windows commands with batch files to open two directories and two websites (Amazon.com and Stackoverflow.com) in Chrome with a single click.

Demonstrate how a modern RPA tool surpasses batch files by building a multi-activity workflow in UiPath Studio, including start process, sequences, and use application browser to automate folders and websites.

Understand Windows file system concepts—disks, folders, and files. Map manual steps to rpa tool capabilities and standardize shortcuts, view, and batch files to improve estimates and communicate problems to developers.

Master flowchart fundamentals to map, standardize, and optimize daily work, define the happy path and exceptions, assign roles, and use symbols like terminators, processes, decisions, and delays.

Explore how to create clear flowcharts using the free draw.io tool, covering shapes, connectors, pages, layers, formatting, and linking subprocesses for end-to-end process mapping.

Explore how modern rpa tools use flowchart concepts as a foundation for business process automations in UiPath with functional flowcharts, log messages, and annotations.

Explore the basics of html for building web pages, including html, head, body, and title tags, and learn to use PyCharm for live updates and to inspect selectors and locators.

Learn the core web technologies behind modern applications, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Bootstrap. Explore the DOM, tags, and attributes that structure and style web pages.

Learn how HTML semantic tags like header, nav, section, article, aside, and footer structure a web page, including headers and footers inside articles or sections and varying nav placement.

Discover how css controls the look and feel of a page by using classes to size, position, and color elements, including left and right sidebars, banners, and z-order.

Discover Bootstrap basics, a CSS and JavaScript library that speeds web development with fixed and fluid width containers, responsive grids, and reusable classes for styling, tables, buttons, and navigation.

Explore UiPath studio selectors by comparing before and after pages on automation playground, observe id attributes and element order changes, and identify challenges on page two with no attributes.

Learn how dynamic selectors in UiPath use wildcards like the asterisk and question mark to handle changing element IDs, improving reliability through validation and repair.

Explore programming basics behind rpa tools by examining variables, data types, functions, and object oriented concepts, and compare VB.Net snippets with rpa workflows and .NET framework documentation.

Create a console application in visual studio to learn text-based interactions, the difference between console and desktop apps, and basic project setup steps.

Create and run a simple VB.NET console app in Visual Studio, rename modules, and use solution explorer to understand build, debug, and release output in bin folders.

Explore how functions and subroutines break complex processes into reusable pieces, compare single-process and multi-process reuse, apply the dry principle, and reuse extracted workflows with arguments, e.g., logging into Salesforce.

Learn to build reusable UiPath automations by extracting workflows, invoking them with arguments, and publishing libraries to orchestrator while composing a process with read file, login, and logout steps.

Explore the .NET framework as a collection of libraries with pre imagined interactions that speeds development, and apply the DRY principle in UiPath projects.

Explore why databases power business systems and how database knowledge boosts RPA capabilities, then install tools, create a database, and use UiPath to interact with it.

See how a central database stores employees, customers, products, and orders across business systems. Learn three access points for rpa bots—ui, api, and direct database—and how policies shape data access.

Compare a database to an Excel workbook with separate tables for customers and products, then show how SQL queries read, insert, update, and delete data on a server.

Learn to build an end-to-end UiPath automation that creates a value tracker, connects to a SQL Server database, signs into two websites, and records seconds saved.