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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)

Running VBScripts

VBScripts are widely used by developers as they are easily written using any text editor, such as Notepad. A VBScript file will have the .vbs extension. This file may contain just a script or some functions and functions may return a value. Automation Anywhere allows you to import a VBScript file as well as letting you write the script inline within Automation Anywhere. You can also pass parameters to a script and receive a return value. In the next sections, you will learn all about importing a script file and inline scripting. You will also learn how to pass parameters to a script and get return values from functions. We can start the walk-through by building the outline using steps and comments.

Let's start this walk-through by executing the following steps:

  1. Log in to Control Room.
  2. Create a new bot and call it Chapter17 – External Scripts in the folder \Bot\.
  3. Add a new Comment action as "---------------------" on line 1...