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About UiPath Denver Chapter!
We are an online and offline environment where RPA
developers, professionals, and enthusiasts:
- meet each other and share experiences in the RPA
industry
- learn together about the challenges they encounter
- build projects and components together and expand
upon automation ideas
Platforms:
- UiPath Community Page
- Slack Channel
6. Unlock more automation
opportunities with APIs
• Provides powerful app-to-app
integration across UiPath platform
• Seamlessly combines world-class
UI and API automation
• Delivers the tools and flexibility to
solve any automation challenge,
faster and at scale
• Grows your automation
connectivity choices
Why UiPath
Integration
Service
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What does UiPath Integration Service offer?
Flexible Automation
Seamlessly use UIs and APIs
in a single automation design
Simplified Automation Design
Activity Packs provide uniform integration
experience across all our Studio designers.
Security and Governance
Automate more with governance
and reliability.
Triggers
Kick off automations with
server-side events
Connections
Easily setup and manage
connections with standardized auth
Large Library of Connectors
Automate nearly any system with
OOTB, pre-built connectors
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Anatomy of a Connector
REST
SOAP
ODATA
OAuth 2.0
JSON
Basic Auth XML
Third-party applications APIs UiPath Platform
Connector Builder
Components Seamless integration
Data Models
Activities
Events
Base API
Authentication
Resources
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Introducing Connector Builder
What?
Rapidly add your own connector,
based on third-party APIs
Why?
Because there is always that next
integration you need.
When?
22.12 General Availability
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Who is Connector Builder for?
differentiate in specific
industries and domains
Technology Partners
connect to any business
system in my organization
UiPath Customers
establish expertise and
community contributions
Community Devs
Basic API Knowledge
REST, JSON, JavaScript, …
RPA Developer
integration-savvy
Employee & CoE-driven
Application knowledge
Skills
Required
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Education
Learn RPA Skills
- Free Community Software
- Academy
- Certification
- Academic Alliance
Support
Solve problems
- Forum
- Documentation
- Community Blog
- Use Cases Repository
- Job Board
Network
Grow your career
- Meetups & DevCon
- Mentorship
- Hackathons
- MVP Program
- Automation Champions
An ecosystem enabling
developer success
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Vibrant ecosystem of more than 1.5 million professionals and citizen developers learning, getting
support, and succeeding together in their automation careers.
• Start with the free Community Edition to get trained and certified
• Then upgrade to the Enterprise version of the product
Academy
• Get crowdsourced support and share product feedback on UiPath Forum
• Check the product documentation
• Join the Insider Preview for early testing
Forum
Community Events
• Access the latest articles and video tutorial content created by community members and
UiPath engineers in our Community Blog
• Contribute as an author.
UiPath Community MVPs • Get recognized as a Most Valuable Professional (MVP), Automation Champion or one of
the Forum Leaders, based on the contribution to others’ growth
Join the UiPath Community
• Connect with like-minded people and share best practices with the UiPath Community
• Solve challenges in engaging hackathon competitions
• Join meetups and conferences
Blog and Tutorials
Automation Cloud
• Learn the skills of the future on UiPath Academy or through our Academic Alliance
• Earn globally recognized credentials with UiPath Certifications
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“We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and
forget about progress and prosperity for our
community. Our ambitions must be broad enough
to include the aspirations and needs of others, for
their sakes and our own.”
Cesar Chavez
Thank You!
Editor's Notes
In October 2021 we launched Integration Service where we now have close to 50 connectors available that result in thousands of API calls a day and triggering hundreds of processes. We will be releasing many more prebuilt connectors with complementary Activity Packs to provide ready-to-use integrations for high valuable applications. As the average enterprise easily has over 150 SaaS applications, there will always be that one application that our customers are looking to integrate with, but we don’t have readily available. Therefore, we are introducing Connector Builder.
We also launched Event Triggers in GA in December 2021
Other notable achievements:
First-party with accessibility, localization, identity
Support for curated eventsEvent polling interval
SOC2 Type 1 attestation
Region availability in EU, NA, JP region
Before I walk you through how to build a connector, let’s talk about what a connector is made out of…
Third-party application APIs come in many different shapes and sizes. There are different technologies (f.e. REST/SOAP), they are different data formats like JSON and XML, and a lot of complexity in authentication with standards such as OAuth 2.0, basic authentication or completely custom implementations..
On the other hand, the goal of a connector within UiPath, is to make a third-party API available and useable within the UiPath platform, so you can interact with this application without needing to worry about the API. Whether you are building Robots using our Studio designers, setting up an application in UiPath apps, or even simply looking to connect to a system and configure your connection in UiPath Assistant.
Integrating with an API is based on three core components
The Base API implementation which abstracts the technology
The Authentication which allows anybody USING the connector to create a connection easily
The Resources that allow to interact with the data
In addition, you may want to…
Enrich the data models to make it easier for your users to interact with the data
Enhance search capabilities to find the data they need
Or add the capability to use event triggers for the third-party application
All of this is what Connector Builder aims to achieve, so each custom-built connector work seamlessly across the UiPath product portfolio.
Now let’s dive into Connector Builder and let me show you how it works!
With Connector Builder, our users will be able to rapidly add third-party business application APIs as a connector in their Connector Catalog – and share their creations with the marketplace. Once published – your users will be able to create connections, use the integration in their automations and across any UiPath product where Integration Service is leveraged, for example Studio, your robots and UiPath Apps. With Connector Builder, we are unlocking the full potential of interacting with third-party APIs within UiPath and provide you the flexibility seamlessly interact with any API you need.
Connector Builder is really a tool for anybody looking to meet specific use cases with a connector we do not have available in our official catalog.
Maybe you are a Technology Partner looking to differentiate and leveraging your expertise to monetize ready-mode solutions in a specific domain
Maybe you are a UiPath customer aiming to solve your specific use case that requires interaction with a third-party application API
Or maybe you are a community developer, and you want to apply your application knowledge to share your creations with others through the marketplace
No matter which category you fall into, if you are an RPA developer with basic API knowledge and access to application knowledge, you are the right fit for Connector Builder.
Today I will be giving you a quick overview of Insights, UiPath’s analytics tool.
Insights is a web application that serves as a platform for data modeling and analytics using a combination of available business metrics and operational insights. With pre-loaded dashboard Templates as well as user-defined dashboards to visualize company data across desired metrics, it enables you to discover new analytical insights, track performance indicators, and be alerted of errors.
KPI indicators
The Insights homepage displays all available dashboards to which the user has access. By default, all users have access to the Robots and Machines, Processes, Queues, and Attended Reporting Templates that are included with the product. The Business ROI and Business ROI Queues templates will be locked unless the administrator has added data to the ROI dataset, and the appropriate permissions are granted to a user. Each dashboard can be copied and customized, as well as downloaded in various formats.
