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Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

By : Husan Mahey
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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 13: Working with Emails

We just explored how to automate tasks using Word in Chapter 12, Automation Using Word. Hopefully, the bot you built has given you the confidence to edit and update Word documents using Automation Anywhere A2019. You have learned how to insert text into defined bookmarks, replaced selected text, and added new paragraphs. All these skills and practical experience will build your confidence and help you become a competent RPA Automation Anywhere developer. In this chapter, we will be using the following packages:

Figure 13.1 – Packages used in this chapter

Figure 13.1 – Packages used in this chapter

This chapter will explore automating tasks that use email. We will be looking at the Email package in Automation Anywhere. We will look at how to connect to different types of email accounts, such as Exchange Web Services (EWS), IMAP, and POP3. You will also learn about sending and receiving emails, as well as looping through different email folders. The walk-throughs...