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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 17: Running External Scripts

Previously, we looked at building modular bots and how to design efficient bots with reusable sub bots. The topics covered the approach to take when building modular bots, how to run sub bots from within the main bot, and also how you would pass parameters between these bots. There was also an extensive practical walk-through based on a real-life business scenario. A lot of valuable skills and experience were gained in the last chapter.

In this chapter, you will learn about how to expand on Automation Anywhere capabilities by running external components. There may be instances where you think a task cannot be easily automated using the actions available or it would take too many actions to achieve the required results. In these cases, it may prove easier to run a script such as a VBScript or a Python script. Well, Automation Anywhere allows you to run these as part of your overall RPA solution. You will learn how to run these scripts, including...