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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 5: Building Your First Bot

As a bot developer, you will use many of the different actions available to you. We have already looked at implementing a simple Message box. Although this shows how to apply an action, it doesn't really perform any task. In the real world, bots perform tasks that are usually done by humans. These tasks are often tedious, boring, and repetitive. To really learn how to build fully functional bots, we need a task that would be ideal for automation.

You should now be familiar with the development interface. In the previous chapter, we looked at the different views for visualizing your bot as you built it. You also got a glimpse of all the actions available to help automate your tasks.

In this chapter, we will expand on this knowledge. We will take a real-life business case, a relatively simple process, with the aim of fully automating it. The process will involve including, reading, and creating a CSV file, as well as carrying out some basic...