Week 1: Understand what you can automate

Learning Initatives Reboot Your Skills 2021
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Every time I complete a task, I get more and more exited. The Robot Path exercise, more than a task was an eye opener. Really cool!!

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Thanks for the detailed exercises! Learning more by doing.

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2 posts were split to a new topic: Silly question, do we actually send an email to sam.barnes@uipath.com or just send it to any random email we’d like?

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This one was really fun, especially since I had to opportunity to go back and try to identify a mistake. I kept looking at the e-mail that did not leave the drafts folder, until I realized I forgot to uncheck the Save to drafts box.

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A post was split to a new topic: I have the application in the outside frame and embedded the excel resource into it, and following that the outlook resource. Would it work other way around as well?

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A post was merged into an existing topic: I had to use Application/Browser option to use my gmail account because Outlook automation was not reliable

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Works perfect in my case :slight_smile:

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Good exercise for the beginners too, thanks!!

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4 posts were merged into an existing topic: I loved this exercise, but like others I’m struggling with getting it to actually send the email. I’m getting the following error: Outlook account: {x:Null} And: Send Outlook Email: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: address

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5 posts were split to a new topic: I picked the correct excel file, but seams to be defaulting back to the project file…how do I change this so I can pick cell in excel file?

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4 posts were split to a new topic: Stuck on Step 3: once I click on “Cash In” field in Double UI, it does not let me place an anchor in the B2 cell in excel

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A post was split to a new topic: I m having trouble opening the Robot Path Excel file from the excercise. When i m using The "Use Excel file " resource and i m runining the rpa the file does not open, and i m not receving any error message

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It’s done.

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A post was split to a new topic: So, I’m having issues with the sending Outlook email part. I receive this error message "…An error occurred while trying to initialize the Outlook session. Make sure Outlook is installed on your system’

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Here’s my attempt. Hope this is correct.

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2 posts were split to a new topic: I am already stuck on the second step. How do I tell my bot to use the correct excel?

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A post was split to a new topic: My autofill to bring in excel value doesn’t pick up the value. I confirmed is reading correct excel file and it writes the txn id back OK. But when it clicks into the fields - autofill isnt bring in the value. Why?

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A post was split to a new topic: If I use the “Use Excel File” resource it opens the correct Excel File, but the “Get Text” action doesn’t work

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A post was split to a new topic: There is a little mistake in the Reboot Your Skill course

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A post was split to a new topic: I am presented with the following error when sending the email; apparently it does not allow to attach the .xlsx file since it is open. (Es posible que el archivo ya esta abierto o que no tenga permiso para abrirlo)