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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)

Inserting XML nodes

In some cases, we may need insert additional nodes into our XML file. In this section, we will explore how to achieve this with Automation Anywhere. Now that you're more familiar with the XML package, you've probably guessed that to perform any XML action, you need to specify the session, Node, and Action. When inserting a node, the same principle applies. In this walk-through, we will be creating a new node for all the records in our sample XML file. The node we'll be inserting will be named format and will be assigned the Paperback value. We will start by created a new Step action, as we did previously.

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

  1. Add a Step action to line 30, ensuring it is aligned with the previous Step action on line 19.
  2. Set the Title property of this Step action on line 30 to Inserting a Node. Your development interface should look like this:
    Figure 10.42 – Development interface

    Figure 10.42 – Development interface

  3. ...