[Music] hey everyone it's justin thanks for watching in this video i'm going to show you my first process automation or unattended automation that i built in rpa studio it's not connected to my instance i'm trying to learn this rpa or robotic process automation in small chunks i'm going to eat the elephant a little bit at the time and as i learned this i'm going to share with you here on youtube so in this video i did something simple i said i just need to get understand how this user interface works how i do things on here and i'm going to show you what i learned so first thing i did in another video i showed you i installed rpa studio this time i did an unattended automation so i could start fooling around and messing around with how this works my use case here so far is i've created a word document and saved it somewhere on my pc and then i'm going to open it and then export it to pdf so to get here what i did is i added a connector for microsoft word so again in the previous video i showed the toolbox as we went through all the different things that you can do over there on the left one of those was microsoft word so if you see right there i've got excel i've got outlook i've got a word and so what i did is you take this microsoft word and you drag it all the way over to the right to the global objects folder in your project explorer when i did that when i click on a double click on microsoft word i get a new panel of all the methods the things that i can do with microsoft word so this is new i didn't show this in my last video you could see there i got add a footer add a header i could do some things with rows and pages and tables export to pdf in this demo that's what i did there i can find i can get a table insert new rows is it open i could replace bookmarks save as set a table i'm just all kinds of things right somebody really thought through all the things that you might want to do in microsoft word so i dragged those onto the canvas i connected these little dots so it happened in this particular order and then i just double clicked on these fields to populate those so what does that look like if we do it export to pdf i'll just drag it on here anywhere on the canvas you can see it um it tells me i need to put a file path in there and it needs to be a string so you can kind of get an idea there you could probably start passing some parameters of some values instead of hard coding it like i did so again the hard code you just double click but let's go ahead and delete that off of here not the point and i want to show you what this looks like so my document that i got is right here it's numberscoloringbook.docx and essentially it's uh this template that i found on microsoft word and it's got a way to uh color numbers so you can come in here give it to your kid or do something in your spare time to mess with colors what's going to happen when i run this it's going to open this up create a pdf and then save it and then close the document so without further ado let's go ahead and hit this run button on the process automation and see what that looks like so i'll hit run here and we'll pull that folder back up so you can see it happened real time we should see the file get created there it is numberscoloringbook.pdf and if i open that pdf you'll be able to see it's on my other screen you'll be able to see the details of that particular word document converted to a pdf so that did exactly what we wanted it to exactly what i told it to and if you look here when you run these in the rpa studio i get little uh logs for how long it took so i've got four seconds for that one one second to export to pdf so word took a little bit longer to open and then here at the end it took zero seconds to actually end and then i can clear the log if i want to and um and be done so that's it for now so i've done my first automation i'm trying to think of the open super cool use case for rpa hub my brain is getting there i've got some ideas this is actually building on one of them related to creating pdf documents that someone might have to do i have to do that mainly myself so i hope you found this video helpful if you did please like please subscribe or share it with somebody who you think might be interested until next time i'll see you on the next one [Music] you