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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 18: Managing Errors

In the last chapter, you discovered how to run external scripts such as VBScripts and Python scripts. The walk-throughs showed how to call these scripts as well as how to send parameters with them, and finally get a result back to your bot. Having the ability to run scripts is a very useful tool to have in your automation toolbox. It opens up further automation opportunities, not limiting yourself only to the actions available in Automation Anywhere.

This brings us to the final chapter of the book; in this chapter, we will be exploring error management. I hear you say my bots never have any errors, so error management is not needed! I agree with you; I am sure your RPA skills and knowledge are impeccable. The most common errors are not necessarily caused by poor development but by invalid or incomplete inputs. Having robust error management will allow your bots to continue processing even when an error or exception is encountered.

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