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Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

By : Husan Mahey
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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)

Summary

This has been another hands-on chapter. We have covered every action that is available in the XML package and learned some great skills. This chapter's walk-throughs have taken you through a multitude of exercises, including reading single and multiple nodes from XML data streams. You also learned how to update single and multiple nodes within XML files. Furthermore, you've learned how to insert and delete nodes and values from XML files. Apart from this, we built our bot so that it executes XPath functions that return results. Since many applications typically utilize the XML format, understanding how to work with these files can help us discover many of the automation opportunities that are available to us. Creating your own XML files can also be a good way to store metadata for your bots.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to apply RPA to Excel tasks. We will cover the basics of opening, closing, and saving workbooks. We will also be reading and updating...