Attended Automation Features in Studio (v2020.10)

This course focuses on how to use the key features in the attended automation toolkit. Consider it a collection of tools useful to build a process to enhance the automation capabilities & user experience.

Course prerequisites:

• The RPA Starter Course
• The RPA Developer Foundation Learning Plan
• The UiPath Assistant Course
• The Get Started with UiPath Robots Course

Product alignment: This course was built using the 2020.10 product version of UiPath Studio and is applicable to newer versions as well.

Audience: RPA Developers 

Learning objectives

At the end of this course learners should be able to:

• Explain what Attended Automation is.
• Use the Block User Input activity in your projects.
• Use the Simulate and Send Window Messages properties in your projects.
• Configure processes to execute in Picture-in-Picture mode.
• Create and run background processes.
• Switch between foreground and background execution.
• Use Triggers to monitor local events.
• Chain processes using the Invoke Process and Run Parallel Process activities.

Agenda:

• What is Attended Automation?
• Block User Input
• Send Window Messages and Simulate
• Picture in Picture
• Practice 1: Enable the Simulate Input Method
• Background Processes and Use Foreground
• Triggers
• Invoke Process
• Run Parallel Process
• Practice 3: Design and Develop an Event-Driven Process