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Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

By : Husan Mahey
Book Image

Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

By: Husan Mahey

Overview of this book

With an increase in the number of organizations deploying RPA solutions, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is quickly becoming the most desired skill set for both developers starting their career and seasoned professionals. This book will show you how to use Automation Anywhere A2019, one of the leading platforms used widely for RPA. Starting with an introduction to RPA and Automation Anywhere, the book will guide you through the registration, installation, and configuration of the Bot agent and Control Room. With the help of easy-to-follow instructions, you’ll build your first bot and discover how you can automate tasks with Excel, Word, emails, XML, and PDF files. You’ll learn from practical examples based on real-world business scenarios, and gain insights into building more robust and resilient bots, executing external scripts such as VBScripts and Python, and adding error handling routines. By the end of this RPA book, you’ll have developed the skills required to install and configure an RPA platform confidently and have a solid understanding of how to build complex and robust, yet performant, bots.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)

Chapter 10: Working with XML Files

The previous chapter covered some of the most common actions that you will use to build automated solutions. Knowing how to apply loops and conditions is key for pretty much all types of software development. Just to recap, the previous walk-throughs also included working with files and folders, as well as introducing you to the Record type variable.

Now that you have a better understanding of the functionalities Automation Anywhere provides, in this chapter, we will examine XML files. By the end of this chapter, you will know how to read, update, create, and delete nodes in XML files. We will also introduce you to the Step action. This action doesn't really serve much use but is helpful in organizing our bot's structure. Previously, we used the Comment action to show us the skeleton of our bot. Instead of doing this, we can use the Step action to group a collection of steps. From a visualization perspective, this allows us to collapse...