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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)

Running Python scripts

Running Python scripts from Automation Anywhere uses the same principle as running VBScripts. Firstly, create the session, then run the function or script. You can pass parameters to the function or script. Finally, close the session once you have finished with it. For this walk-through, we will be replicating the same process as the previous task. The bot will run a function called procSquareRoot from the Python script file Chapter17_SquareRoot.py. The function takes a value as an input. It then calculates the square root of this value and returns the result. The contents of the Python file look like the following screenshot:

Figure 17.28 – Python script file (Chapter17_SquareRoot.py)

Figure 17.28 – Python script file (Chapter17_SquareRoot.py)

We will use the existing two variables, numValue and strReturnValue, for this walk-through. As we are using a Python script, please ensure you have Python installed on your workstation. You can download the latest version from https://www.python...