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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)

Summary

There has been a lot covered in this chapter, giving you the skills needed to understand and design modular bots. Taking this approach will be a stepping stone to having your own library of smaller sub-bots. This saves you from a lot of redevelopment effort, especially when automating larger and complete processes. You have learned how to run a sub-bot from within a bot, as well as how to pass parameters between these bots. The real-life scenario walk-through provided practical experience of how this actually works in the real world.

In the next chapter, we will be looking beyond Automation Anywhere. You will learn how to use external scripts, including VBScript and Python scripts, to enhance the functionality of your bots. You will also discover how to pass parameters between your scripts and your bot, opening up even more automation possibilities.