🎅 Advent of UiPath 2020

[loginerror (Maciej Kuźmicz)]

Go go go

Advent Challenge #5

Welcome to the 2020 Advent Challenge #5! All users are welcome! (You can still join. You don’t need to participate in previous challenges) Earn Stars to increase your chances to win a prize More info here …

[loginerror (Maciej Kuźmicz)]

It is time to score the challenge #3

Santa was super excited to see all the different approaches provided in this challenge. He felt generous with the bonus points in this round because each solution had something unique to it.

If you want to learn new approaches, please do check out the solutions yourself. There is certainly a lot to learn from them!

New totals are posted below:

Username	#3 Beginner	#3 Advanced	#3 Bonus	Total
jeevith	-	5	5	26
stefano_negro	-	5	3	28
indranil_Nag	-	-	-	6
Saranya	-	-	-	6
Sarmad_Nadeem	-	-	-	14
StefanSchnell	5	1	5	35
seanrockvz13	5	5	3	36
Masire	-	-	-	14
Yoichi	-	-	-	12
Maneesha_de_silva	5	5	4	39
Krutika_Kotkar	-	-	-	6
Markus_Anding	-	5	3	24
rahulsharma	-	-	-	7
Anna_Maziarz	5	1	5	24
Adee	5	-	4	9
avanmeurs	-	5	4	9
prasath17	5	5	4	29
monsieurrahul	5	5	5	27
abu.behlim	-	1	3	13
emre.balci	5	5	4	25
Veena_Siva	5	-	3	16
sarikayaebru	5	5	4	27
prashanthig	1	-	-	7
Nived_Nambiar	-	-	-	13
Sai_s	-	-	-	14
Mikolaj_Zielinski	-	-	-	5

Good Luck everybody!

[Pablito (Pawel Wozniak)]

Let’s summarize the challenge #4

Your incredible help makes Santa happy. He can still work having in mind that his future vacation plans are decoded and everything is recovered.
You done so great job that he was able to watch all Star Wars Episodes once again in free time

New totals are posted below:

Username	#4 Beginner	#4 Advanced	#4 Bonus	Total
jeevith	-	5	3	34
stefano_negro	-	5	5	38
indranil_Nag	-	-	-	6
Saranya	-	-	-	6
Sarmad_Nadeem	-	-	-	14
StefanSchnell	5	5	3	48
seanrockvz13	5	5	3	49
Masire	-	-	-	14
Yoichi	-	-	-	12
Maneesha_de_silva	5	-	1	45
Krutika_Kotkar	-	-	-	6
Markus_Anding	-	5	2	31
rahulsharma	-	-	-	7
Anna_Maziarz	5	-	-	29
Adee	-	-	-	9
avanmeurs	-	-	-	9
prasath17	-	-	-	29
monsieurrahul	5	5	4	41
abu.behlim	5	1	1	20
emre.balci	5	5	-	35
Veena_Siva	-	-	-	16
sarikayaebru	-	-	-	27
prashanthig	5	5	-	17
Nived_Nambiar	-	-	-	13
Sai_s	-	-	-	14
Mikolaj_Zielinski	-	-	-	5
tavineei	5	-	-	5
rpavanguard	-	5	4	9

Good Luck to everyone!

[loginerror (Maciej Kuźmicz)]

And another one

Advent Challenge #6

Welcome to the 2020 Advent Challenge #6! All users are welcome! (You can still join. You don’t need to participate in previous challenges) Earn Stars to increase your chances to win a prize More info here. Santa informed us that the some reindeers escaped again (we did hear about this). But the reindeers did not come back after calling their names this time. So he decided to ask Claire. Claire owns a reindeer farm, is an absolute expert about reindeers and knows how …

[AndersJensen]

One of the forum giants checking in, nice job with the challenge #6, @ppr - I will make a solution as well.

[loginerror (Maciej Kuźmicz)]

And another

Advent Challenge #7

Welcome to the 2020 Advent Challenge #7! All users are welcome! (You can still join. You don’t need to participate in previous challenges) Earn Stars to increase your chances to win a prize More info here. → Rudolph: Hi Rudolph, how are you? → : I am fine, how are you? → : Well, you know there a lot of organization tasks to do like lists, creating reports and so on. As you entered into the d…

[seanrockvz13 (Sean Jerome Llanto)]

@StefanSchnell @Maneesha_de_silva @jeevith @stefano_negro @monsieurrahul 1 more challenge to go then we can all say we have helped Santa throughout the whole advent

[StefanSchnell]

Maybe Santa will invite us to the Christmas village and appoints us to his elves.

[Maneesha_de_silva]

[seanrockvz13 (Sean Jerome Llanto)]

i think that is better than to let us replace the “Runaway” Reindeers hahaha

i imagine if we are replacing the reindeer, the 5 of us will be pulling the Sleigh hahaha

[Maneesha_de_silva]

I was thinking about that why cant Santa put some Unattended Robot to deliver Gifts

[Maneesha_de_silva]

So then I’m waiting to take some Santa’s magical Meals (My Challenge 6) , so we can fly over the world

[StefanSchnell]

Our qualities are other than pulling the sleds, Santa noticed that.
He is certainly thinking to found an RPA CoE and wants to hire us.
Would you like to live at the North Pole @seanrockvz13?
Then it’s like with a CPU, well cooled it works better.

[seanrockvz13 (Sean Jerome Llanto)]

i think that is possible, instead if going through the chimney, the unattended robots will “Unlock” the door and deliver the gifts. Ofcourse, for security reasons, after delivering, it will lock the door also. infact, the unattended bote do not require any break or even sleep or even coffee. That is definitely efficient.

[seanrockvz13 (Sean Jerome Llanto)]

Definitely, if Santa hires us to be his elves, he will be able to not only create gifts and deliver them, all of the processes will be streamlined, the elves will turn into a citizen elves developers, then finally a robot for every Elf!

Maybe @dianamorgan can share her thoughts hahaha

[seanrockvz13 (Sean Jerome Llanto)]

Definitely would like to try that magical food. But would you also like to try Santa’s new Sleigh? i heard it has a V8 engine inside and a turbo intercooler

[StefanSchnell]

A Robot for Every Elf

Great

This should be proposed to UiPath’s marketing.

[Maneesha_de_silva]

SO then Santa Only needs the Uipath APP for looking for all status

[rpavanguard]

@AndersJensen

The calendar will touch all the important topics we face as RPA developers.

I would like to post something related to this purpose of the Advent Challenge Series

We are seeing awesome solutions posted to these pages in response to the Challenges. So much so that I’m almost tempted to go back to writing code-heavy solutions.

Disclaimer: I love getting things done in concise code. Sometimes it is not just unavoidable, but darn efficient as well!

And therein comes a real-world challenge.
Before succumbing to the temptation each time, I try to remind myself that for most part impersonating the human user is where RPA solutions in general distinguish themselves from traditional back-office or code-first automations.

When presenting demos or proof of concepts, I feel that it becomes easier for us to justify the need for RPA by building a demo that is closer to actions of front-line business groups than showing them something that runs several lines of code. And when we demonstrate code-heavy solutions, the tech-savvy audience are quick to respond by asking or saying the following:

1. So, if you are writing code, why do we need to do it in UiPath? Can’t we do it using tools that we already have?
2. Is UiPath an integration tool? Because the code you just showed us can also be written using the “Execute Script Task” in our integrations tool
3. Why are we doing it this way? I have APIs that can do that, why do we need to use RPA?

My concern is that if we build code-heavy RPA Solutions, it is possible that all of the control of salient business functions will be taken away from frontline business groups and the pressure to deal with them will fall squarely on the RPA teams. This pressure would further compound if these processes suffer failures, or if a slight workaround needs to be exercised to make the Automation behave differently in Production.

That said, the above argument loses ground if the Automation is completely Unattended because by making something Unattended, the business user moves out of the technical equation and the RPA team becomes the point of contact for this Automation during its lifetime.

Hopefully, the concept of RPA will become more clearer to business groups and stakeholders as days progress. But at the same time, I think the way we present RPA to them becomes that much more important.

Now why did I post this? I was talking to a person yesterday who comes from HR background. In response to that conversation, I quickly built a solution of an old RPA Challenge #16 and posted a video of it. I believe that this would give her clarity on what RPA can do for her organization. I’m posting that video here again because the RPA Challenge is now considered legacy.

These are just my thoughts and experiences. Approaches and opinions will vary.
For now, we’re more focused on how we can foresee, conceptualize and build better Human-Robot interfaces by going above and beyond the simple act of a Robot imitating human actions.
Doing so would put Business users in the driving seat and allow them to steer their automations through variations within the allowable scope of their intended functionality.

We’ve done it at least twice and we think it works!

thanks!

UiPath RPA Challenge 16 - Draw an Excel Pie Chart

[StefanSchnell]

Hello @rpavanguard,
I assume your basically idea is about the Duality of RPA. Yes, you are right. The balancing act between programming, in the familiar sense, and RPA is very thin. Why? It doesn’t really make a difference. In my opinion the design method is different, but the function is identical. That’s what makes RPA so fantastic. Easy use of complex functions and processes without having to be a “professional programmer”. We have to make this transparent to our customers. And we have to make this transparent to the IT departments, we need them in the future for more complex tasks, where their core competencies are. Therefore, in my opinion, RPA allows us both perspectives.
I mean sure, if an IT department have a great automation platform to solve the requirements of their customers and it have the resources to do that, then let them do it. But do they have it? In the most cases not, that’s why we have RPA. In my opinion, there is no need for further discussion from this point on. We are talking about the democratization of automation. Let it decide for itself which paths it will take, that is democracy.
Best regards
Stefan