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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

In this chapter, we looked at external scripts. There will be some exceptional instances when the actions within Automation Anywhere won't perform a specific action. An example could be calculating the square root of a value. In order to achieve this, we can still rely on Automation Anywhere to provide a solution. An ideal solution would be to use an external script. Whether it's a VBScript or a Python script, Automation Anywhere can handle it. You learned how to run scripts as well as how to pass parameters and receive return values. The step-by-step walk-throughs guided you through each stage and provided key practical skills, as well as boosting your confidence in working with RPA.

The next chapter will explore error management. You will learn all about handling exceptions and errors while your bot performs its tasks. Specifically, we will look at the different types of methods used to manage errors, such as Try, Catch, Finally, and Throw. The walk-through will...