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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)

Connecting to mailboxes

A big part of our daily routine involves working with email. This can be receiving attachments, such as invoices, as well as replying to emails with document attachments. There are different types of email accounts, such as Exchange Web Services (EWS), POP3, and IMAP. Each type of mailbox will have its own account, which is hosted on a mail server. These accounts will require credentials and mail server details in order to access them. In the majority of cases, applications such as Outlook are used to access and manage emails. Automation Anywhere can work with these different types of mailboxes. Account details are needed to connect, except when you are using Outlook. As Outlook is already connected to your mailbox, no credentials are needed. However, Automation Anywhere only supports Outlook when there is only one mailbox connected. It does not support multiple mailboxes in Outlook.

Also, note that there are two different types of connections – one...