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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.

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Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
To get the most out of this book
Download the example code files
Conventions used
Get in touch
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Chapter 1: About Automation Anywhere
Chapter 1: About Automation Anywhere
Technical requirements
What is robotic process automation?
Overview of Automation Anywhere
Automation Anywhere versions
Summary
Free Chapter
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Chapter 2: Installing Automation Anywhere
Chapter 2: Installing Automation Anywhere
Technical requirements
Connecting to Control Room
Preparing your device
Configuring profile and device credentials
Summary
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Chapter 3: Overview of Automation Anywhere Control Room
Chapter 3: Overview of Automation Anywhere Control Room
Technical requirements
Exploring the home screen
Understanding the dashboard
Viewing RPA activity
Managing bots
Managing your devices
Managing user administration
Summary
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Chapter 4: Overview of the Automation Anywhere Development Interface
Chapter 4: Overview of the Automation Anywhere Development Interface
Technical requirements
Bot development interface
What can a bot do?
Programming techniques using Automation Anywhere
Variables and triggers
Debugging and dependencies
Summary
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Chapter 5: Building Your First Bot
Chapter 5: Building Your First Bot
Technical requirements
Downloading sample data from GitHub
Understanding your automation task
Creating your first bot
Performing basic arithmetic calculations
Appending records to a CSV file
Summary
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Chapter 6: Introducing Variables in A2019
Chapter 6: Introducing Variables in A2019
Technical requirements
Working with different variable types
Using message boxes and prompts
Converting data types
Summary
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Chapter 7: Interacting with Applications
Chapter 7: Interacting with Applications
Technical requirements
Automating web applications
Automating desktop applications
Simulating keystrokes
Summary
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Chapter 8: String Manipulation and List Variables
Chapter 8: String Manipulation and List Variables
Technical requirements
Manipulating strings
Looping through lists
Applying a simple logical condition
Summary
9
Chapter 9: Working with Conditional Logic, Loops, and the Filesystem
Chapter 9: Working with Conditional Logic, Loops, and the Filesystem
Technical requirements
Applying different types of loops
Applying logical conditions
Working with the filesystem
Summary
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Chapter 10: Working with XML Files
Chapter 10: Working with XML Files
Technical requirements
Starting, validating, and ending XML sessions
Reading XML nodes
Updating XML nodes
Inserting XML nodes
Deleting XML nodes
Executing XPath functions
Summary
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Chapter 11: Automating Excel
Chapter 11: Automating Excel
Technical requirements
Opening, closing, and saving Excel workbooks
Reading and writing data within Excel worksheets
Working with data in Excel
Running macros
Summary
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Chapter 12: Automation Using Word
Chapter 12: Automation Using Word
Technical requirements
Understanding the manual process
Summary
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Chapter 13: Working with Emails
Chapter 13: Working with Emails
Technical requirements
Connecting to mailboxes
Reading emails and attachments
Sending emails and attachments
Summary
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Chapter 14: Working with PDF Files
Chapter 14: Working with PDF Files
Technical requirements
Extracting text and images
Splitting and merging documents
Encrypting and decrypting documents
Using the PDF dictionary
Summary
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Chapter 15: Working with Databases
Chapter 15: Working with Databases
Technical requirements
Connecting to, and disconnecting from, databases
Reading data from databases
Updating databases
Summary
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Chapter 16: Building Modular Bots and Sub-Tasks
Chapter 16: Building Modular Bots and Sub-Tasks
Technical requirements
Designing modular task bots
Running sub-task bots
Passing variables between main and sub-task-bots
Working example walk-through
Summary
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Chapter 17: Running External Scripts
Chapter 17: Running External Scripts
Technical requirements
Running VBScripts
Running Python scripts
Summary
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Chapter 18: Managing Errors
Chapter 18: Managing Errors
Technical requirements
Error handling with A2019
Understanding Try, Catch, Finally, and Throw actions
Building an error-handling routine
Summary
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Chapter 2: Installing Automation Anywhere

The latest Community Edition of Automation Anywhere is a fully cloud-based platform. It is also available to students and small businesses for free. There is no limit on the number of bots you can build; the only limitation is that they can only be deployed to one device. This makes it ideal to learn how to start building RPA bots.

The basic components needed for any version of Automation Anywhere to run are Control Room and the Client. Control Room functions as a management tool. It is used to manage your user accounts, devices, bots, and schedules, as well as giving bot insights. In previous versions, the Client was the bot development interface, but this has been superseded in the latest Community Edition A2019 and all the development is now done from within Control Room. So, there is no need to install any client application.

The previous chapter showed how to register with Automation Anywhere. This registration process will create a user account for you and allocate your account to a control room. You will receive an email with the Control Room URL details as well as your login credentials.

In this chapter, we will get Automation Anywhere up and running, ready to start building bots. You will learn how to connect to the control room and update your profile, and we will move forward to setting up the machine you would run your bot on, known as a device. After creating the device, you will learn how to configure and set up any credentials needed to log in to the device. By the end of this chapter, you will have completed learning how to set up the environment and get ready for your RPA bot development journey using Automation Anywhere.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Connecting to Control Room
  • Preparing your device
  • Configuring profile and device credentials
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