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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 6: Introducing Variables in A2019

Having already built your first bot, you should now be very comfortable with navigating through the Automaton Anywhere interface. You should have no issues with logging on to the Control Room and creating a new bot. We have also looked at some of the actions the bots can perform, but there are many more actions available. The tasks a bot can perform are pretty much limited to your imagination. There really isn't much that a bot cannot be instructed to perform. A lot of this functionality is already available and grouped within packages using Automation Anywhere. In the next five chapters, we will be taking a closer look at the different packages and actions Automation Anywhere offers.

In this chapter, you will get hands-on experience with the basic essentials for developing with Automation Anywhere. You will be creating, assigning, and editing values stored in variables, and these variables will include Booleans, strings, numbers, and...